Word: halt
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Advocates for the wise use movement have come up with some pretty loopy ideas -- among them, a scientifically silly proposal to halt global warming by clear-cutting ancient forests. But one of their radical notions has been getting a friendly hearing from the courts, Congress and the Bush Administration. The idea, which could ultimately cost state and federal governments billions, is that private landowners are constitutionally entitled to compensation when a government imposes environmental restrictions on how their land may be used. Citing the clause in the Fifth Amendment that bars the government from taking private property "without just compensation...
...traditionally aimed at Western Europe. How come? Maybe no one remembered to tell the factories to stop. Whatever the explanation, Chancellor Kohl intends to do something about it. While he will continue providing emergency rations to the republics this winter, Germany may halt financing and other long-term aid unless they knock...
...provided half the company's $4.1 billion of sales during the first nine months last year. The Air Force has already trimmed B-2 orders from 132 planes to 75. According to TIME's sources, White House aides met quietly with Northrop officials last month to discuss a possible halt to the project, which employs 13,000 in the Los Angeles area, once work is completed on the 16 B-2s now in production...
...victims, whose one common feature is that they have been denied parity with that Blond Beast of the sentimental imagination, the heterosexual, middle-class white male. The range of victims available 10 years ago -- blacks, Chicanos, Indians, women, homosexuals -- has now expanded to include every permutation of the halt, the blind and the short, or, to put it correctly, the vertically challenged...
Citing new evidence of health risks, Food and Drug Administration chief David Kessler last week declared a moratorium on silicone implants. He urged manufacturers to halt marketing the devices and surgeons to stop inserting them in women. In Spain and Australia health officials quickly followed suit; Canada, Britain and France are reviewing their policies. The decision stunned millions of women worldwide. "They are angry, frustrated and concerned," said Dr. Norman Cole, president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. "They want to know what is going...