Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington delivered stern diplomatic notes last week warning both countries not to fit nuclear warheads on missiles. The Administration plans to press them to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and begin serious negotiations to halt production of the plutonium and highly enriched uranium that fuel their bombs. The U.S. also wants to try to mediate their long-running dispute over Kashmir...
...only speculate as to its contents. Perhaps Walsh was fiery, angrily reminding his ball club that their seasons, and for some their careers, were about to come to a screeching halt. A loss to Tulane would be a step backward, a regression on the path to national recognition...
...sudden gunfire between Muslims and Serbs 30 yards from their table brought the elegant courses to a rapid halt. Bullets whizzed past the window as Galbraith and Silajdzic fled the area in an armored land rover...
...series of concerts in Paris that still draw tens of thousands of people each year. In 1993, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell (who helped bring reggae superstar Bob Marley to a global audience) licensed the name Africa Fete and started a similar show in America. He was forced to halt it, however, after three years of financial losses. This year Blackwell has brought it back with strong new sponsorship (including American Express and the Kennedy Center) and a more extensive itinerary, including stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and New York City...
...function properly. The new generation of cancer drugs takes aim at these defective proteins, blocking them, disrupting them in myriad ways. Unlike old-fashioned chemotherapy drugs, the new substances don't poison the tumor--an approach that usually causes collateral damage to healthy cells. Instead, they aim to halt the processes that make a cancer cell act like a cancer cell in the first place...