Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four months the Barco government has waged a campaign to shut down drug operations. Last week the government raised the reward for information leading to Escobar's capture to more than $500,000. Police read the kidnapings as a warning to Barco to halt the expropriations of kingpins' property and the extraditions of drug lords to the U.S. -- or pay the price...
...leaders know it is lonely at the top, but Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been feeling more isolated than most lately. His moves to block an Arab League plan to halt the carnage in Lebanon and his decision to test two long- range missiles have angered neighbors. Moreover, his efforts to rebuild Iraq's economy are foundering...
...point or another in Ceausescu's machine. The President, Ion Iliescu, 59, is a former Central Committee Secretary who was demoted in the early 1970s after complaining to Ceausescu about nepotism in the party. Vice President Dumitru Mazilu is also a lifelong communist whose career ground to a halt after he clashed with the dictator. ^ The same is true of General Nikolai Militaru, the Defense Minister. Should old bosses, even if disgraced under Ceausescu, run the country's affairs...
City Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, one of the city's most vocal opponent of the project, said Wednesday that no form of Scheme Z was acceptable and the city would likely take legal action to halt the project...
Chapman said that while the Sierra Club has not yet decided whether to sue to halt Scheme Z, the organization is "looking at [a suit] very hard." The group sued the Artery project over potential air pollution problems last summer, but a state judge delayed the case until the release of the final environmental report...