Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately for the Harvard men's squash team (6-1), its 91-match home-court winning streak came to a screeching halt Saturday with an 8-1 loss to No. 2 Trinity. However, this was not entirely unexpected, as Harvard was the underdog coming into the match. TRINITY (WOMEN) 1 HARVARD 8 TRINITY (MEN) 8 HARVARD...
...House managers will do everything they can to push across that boundary, confronting Lott with another set of difficult choices as he tries to grind the process to a halt without angering G.O.P. Senators who feel the prosecution has been slighted. Rather than calling the 15 witnesses the managers wanted, the prosecutors were limited to what Henry Hyde called a "pitiful three." In the crunch, Betty Currie was dropped from the list in exchange for White House aide Sidney Blumenthal. Though calling Currie was once thought to be central to proving the obstruction case, some managers decided the spectacle...
...Russian towns that have "adopted" submarines. The local utility has periodically shut off electric power because the Sevmash yard hasn't paid its bills. Its restless, unpaid workers have been threatening to strike. As dozens of Russian submarines rust in port, production of new ones has ground to a halt...
...early gene-therapy trial for cystic fibrosis, inflammation caused by the viral carrier, an altered adenovirus, was so severe that the FDA ordered a halt to the effort, casting a pall over all the other trials--and the field in general. More problems plagued the researchers. In many cases the implanted genes failed to "turn on," or express themselves, and were unable to command the cells to produce the protein they were supposed to provide. Some operated for a while and then inexplicably shut down...
...Richard Holbrooke succeeded in negotiating a deal to halt ethnic bloodshed here...