Word: halt
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...television to urge fellow Danes not to panic -- but to use hats and sunscreen. German Environment Minister Klaus Topfer called on & other countries to match Germany's pledge to stop CFC production by 1995. Greenpeace activists in Britain met with Prime Minister John Major and implored him to halt the manufacture of all CFCs immediately...
World leaders should remember ozone when they think about other threats to the planet. If they always wait until there is indisputable evidence that serious damage is occurring, it may be much too late to halt the damage. Consider the widespread scientific predictions of global warming from the greenhouse effect. No one knows for sure that anything terrible will happen. ! But humanity has boosted the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by at least 25%. It is reckless to subject nature to such giant experiments when the outcome is unknown and the possible consequences are too frightening to contemplate...
Smaller papers have also been struggling to halt invasion of privacy. At the Wichita Eagle, editor Merritt decided in 1990 to change coverage to compel gubernatorial candidates to speak to the issues and "get off the crap sound- bite kind of campaigns." The paper polled a thousand readers and nonreaders before and after the campaign and concluded that readers had greatly enhanced understanding of issues while nonreaders did not. Says Merritt: "We are convinced that the appetite is out there for the kind of journalism all of us would like to do on campaigns. If a candidate is running around...
...significant investor in U.S. Treasury bonds that finance debt on our spiraling budget deficit. By holding so many U.S. assets, Japan allows Americans--at least in the short-run--to get away with not saving or investing nearly as much as we should. Our economy would grind to a halt if the Japanese subscribed to "Buy Japanese...
EDUCATION American colleges' golden age comes to a crashing halt...