Word: halt
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That is no joke. The collapse of the ruble has triggered an urgent debate over how to stabilize the currency. Without sound money, experts say, the drive to bring capitalism to the former Soviet republics could come to a halt. "For people to have a currency that is valueless gives a sense of outrage that is very difficult for any government to deal with," says Scott Pardee, chairman of U.S. operations for the Yamaichi International securities firm. Concurs economist Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins University: "An economy with dysfunctional money is like an engine that...
United States Secretary of State James A. Baker III announced Monday that the U.S. will tie loan guarantees to an agreement to halt Jewish settlement in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
Faced with the most alarming report yet on the state of the earth's ozone layer, President Bush declared last week that the U.S. will halt production of ozone-destroying chemicals by the end of 1995. That's four years sooner than an international treaty dictates, but not as fast as environmentalists would like. "It's a modest improvement but by no means aggressive," says Liz Cook of Friends of the Earth in Washington...
Worse yet, the rain fell too far south to replenish the state's reservoirs, which now hold only about one-third the normal amount of water. The federal Bureau of Reclamation, California's largest water supplier, said it would halt deliveries to farms in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys, threatening crops in two of the nation's richest agricultural areas...
Human-rights activists are waging a loud campaign to halt the repatriations, backed by groups ranging from the N.A.A.C.P. and AFL-CIO to the American Jewish Committee and the U.S. Catholic Conference. But it is uncertain how long Americans will listen. "The White House is banking on the fact that people won't care," says a disillusioned Republican congressional staffer. "Politics, not principle, is the overriding consideration...