Word: halt
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Similarly, the unions have often called large one- or two-day "stayaways" but have not managed to organize the kind of prolonged general strike that could bring the economy to a halt. Many South African businessmen say privately that the most effective economic sanction of all would be for the millions of black workers simply to stay at home until the government agrees to negotiate. This does not happen, says a diplomat in Pretoria, because "the primary concern of most blacks in South Africa is money. The secondary concern is possible political gain in the future. There is no revolution...
...ordinance extends the existing federal and state guidelines to include all nonhuman vertebrates and requires all research institutions to set up animal care and use committees with the power to review and halt experiments. It also sets up a citywide commissioner of laboratory animals to conduct regular inspections of research facilities...
...ordinance extends the existing federal and state guidelines to include all nonhuman vertebrates and requires all research institutions to set up animal care and use committees with the power to review and halt experiments. It also sets up a citywide commissioner of laboratory animals to conduct regular inspections of research facilities...
...ordinance extends the existing federal and state guidelines to include all nonhuman vertebrates and requires all research institutions to set up animal care and use committees with the power to review and halt experiments. It also sets up a citywide commissioner of laboratory animals to conduct regular inspections of research facilities...
Guderian's tanks raced up the coast, seized Boulogne, seized Calais, neared Dunkirk, then were ordered to halt. Guderian protested but was told that it was Hitler's personal order, an important miscalculation that has never been fully explained. "The Fuhrer is terribly nervous," Chief of Staff Franz Halder wrote in his diary. "Frightened by his own success, he is afraid to take any chance and so would rather pull the reins...