Word: halt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some policies that have helped produce his nation's extraordinary economic might. That strength was developed mainly through exports. But Japan's huge trade surplus, which now stands at $61.6 billion, has aroused worldwide calls for trade protection and stirred deep resentment against the increasingly isolated island nation. To halt those trends, Nakasone strenuously urges his countrymen to export less and import more and to produce more goods for the Japanese market...
...elective offices in New Jersey, California, Iowa and Alabama. One initially unchallenged LaRouche candidate in Orange County, Calif., was so weak that a last-minute write-in campaign for County Democratic Chairman Bruce Sumner came within 500 votes of stopping him. Sumner, who jumped into the race to halt the LaRouche onslaught, is expected to call for a recount...
...piano playing days then almost came to a halt, but an inspirational experience pushed Mia back to tinkling the ivories, this time for good. "One night I saw this 10-year-old performing a concerto with the Boston Pops: She was my age. That really struck home, and I was thinking, 'Boy, she is incredible.' She played a Haydn concerto, I remember distinctly. I was so impressed that right after that concert I started to practice and I said if someone at that age can be that good I really want to know how far I can push myself...
...Geneva, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency yesterdays said the Chernobyl disaster set back the industry, but will not halt expansion of nuclear power...
...Japan may prove more promising. Known as "inherent safety" devices, all are designed to eliminate vulnerable cooling systems and human errors and shut down immediately in case of malfunction. One such machine is being developed at the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago. Any sudden rise in temperature will halt the experimental reactor within minutes. The system performed flawlessly in its initial test last April. A similar Swedish unit called PIUS (Process Inherent Ultimate Safety) floods with water in the event of a mishap; the boron-treated liquid instantly stops the reactor. West Germany is experimenting with small modular units that...