Word: halt
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...Israel says, it cannot raise the funds it needs at rates it can afford to settle the 1 million Jews expected to arrive from the former Soviet Union in the next five years -- a task comparable to the U.S. absorbing all of France. Washington has linked guarantees to a halt to new Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. That link has been staunchly resisted by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who refuses to repudiate the right of Jews to inhabit all of the biblical land of Israel and rejects the U.S. argument that the settlements are a provocation to the Palestinians...
...goal of the United Nations-sponsored summit is dauntingly ambitious: to chart a course that will halt the steady degradation of the earth's air, land and water and protect the multitudes of animals and plants threatened with extinction. The organizers of the meeting, officially called the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, intend to produce several landmark documents, including an Earth Charter (a set of principles designed to ensure environmental protection and responsible development), a program of action called Agenda 21 and treaties aimed at curbing climate change and limiting the loss of biodiversity...
...help bridge that gap, Tsongas would use government funds to assist companies in turning their ideas into lucrative products. That could halt an embarrassing trend in which Japanese firms have frequently adopted U.S. know- how, such as microchip technology, and then used it to clobber American companies...
...Council's resolution followed on the heels of a public request by both the American Medical Association and the Surgeon General asking R.J. Reynolds to halt the Cool Joe ad campaign...
...House Speaker Jim Wright. But he was unable to earn the trust of House Speaker Tom Foley. Two years ago, after the General Accounting Office disclosed that the House bank had cashed $232,000 in bad checks in the 12 ! months ending June 30, 1989, Foley directed Russ to halt overdrafts in the free check-writing and check-cashing service. Russ never...