Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States, at its most basic level, works on the principle of More Stuff. Our economy runs because people buy stuff; if they don't buy stuff, everything grinds to a halt. While this is a great way to get a lot of neat things, the principle fails as a way of giving much philosophic meaning to our society...
...years, they have mounted a stirring, nonviolent campaign to defend the forests, which are their libraries, shops and larders. "We cannot be separated from the land where our ancestors have lived," says Asik Nyelik, the headman of Sungai Ubong who has twice been arrested for joining barricades to halt the loggers. Though the lure of modern living has reduced the nomadic Penans from 13,000 two decades ago to perhaps 500 today, those who remain see few advantages in choosing the "barren" road over the spongy, shady forest floor. Says Nyelik: "I don't see that settled Penans are doing...
...their way of life. Most Penan hunters still prefer blowpipes to guns, and a group of headmen insists that if Western goods disappeared, their longhouses could get along just fine so long as the forest remained. This is why after years of arrests, imprisonment and fruitless legal efforts to halt the logging, the Penans continue to blockade the timber roads. "If we die," says Nyelik, "we die in the forest. There is no other place...
...advisers to Cuba to shore up the communist government of Fidel Castro. If fully carried out, it will also help smooth the way for broader U.S. aid, which Washington has tied to an exodus of the Soviet contingent. Coupled with a U.S.-Soviet agreement announced late last week to halt arms shipments to the warring factions in Afghanistan, the Cuban pullout signaled Moscow's desire to disengage from costly commitments abroad and concentrate on more urgent priorities at home...
...could halt a dizzying skid on Wall Street that began with the 1987 stock-market crash. Buoyed in part by mergers and new issues, investment bankers earned $900 million in the first half of 1991, compared with $540 million in the same period a year earlier. And after dismissing nearly 70,000 employees since 1987, or more than 20% of Wall Street's total work force, some firms have gingerly begun to hire again. Goldman, Sachs has added 44 new associates to work on mergers and other deals. The firm also opened a Frankfurt office for international deals. Declares Alain...