Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nations inspectors have since concluded that when the gulf war began last January, Saddam Hussein was as little as a year away from being able to deliver a crude nuclear bomb. U.S. and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) analysts think the war brought Saddam's program to a rude halt. But inspectors are not at all certain they have yet found all the equipment and material Iraq may have hidden away, and thus that they have eliminated the chance that Baghdad might resume a bomb-building program if it can ever get out from under intrusive international surveillance. Analysts...
...homosesxual community has used education to halt the exponential growth of AIDS within its sphere. Now we need intensive education for the dangerously unconcerned heterosexual community...
...found that America has no place for them. Since the latest outpouring of Haitian refugees began, the U.S. Coast Guard has plucked them by the thousands from their leaky vessels and held them in detention centers or aboard American ships. And then, until a federal judge ordered a temporary halt to the practice last week, the U.S. shipped hundreds of them back to the benighted nation they had tried so desperately to escape...
Baker responded that an international call for North Korea to halt its weapons program "does not necessarily involve pressure." He hoped to handle the problem "politically and diplomatically," he said. Beijing seemed to be preparing to tell Baker that China, not the U.S., should take the lead on this. The Chinese want to keep Pyongyang from getting the bomb, but they also want Korea to remain divided so they will not have to compete with a vibrant new economy on their border. Most of all, they want to prevent the U.S. from dominating Asian regional affairs...
...antiforeigner, but rather that he is "native- friendly." Semantics aside, what Haider stands for is abundantly clear to the Viennese, who last week gave his far-right Freedom Party 22.6% of the vote in provincial elections. So popular was Haider's proposal for an immediate halt to immigration into Austria -- there are currently about 500,000 foreigners living in a population of 7.8 million -- that his party displaced the conservative People's Party as the No. 2 power in the state...