Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That lesson certainly held this week, as millions of crestfallen (and titillated) Americans turned toward Washington and cried "How could you do it? How could you get caught?" The government of the most powerful nation on Earth has been brought to a screeching halt -- by Paula Jones' lawyers. On Tuesday, America will tune in for the State of the Union Address, and probably snicker through the whole thing. ("He said 'private sector...
After the article appeared, a Londonbased law firm acting on Goldhagen's behalf sent a letter to the journal's publisher demanding a retraction and a halt to any further publication of Birn's allegations...
...year, 24 inches of hard-packed base on mid-mountain. Members of the patrol had been warning the Kennedys off the game all week; the night before the accident, a senior official of the Aspen Skiing Co., which runs the mountain, contacted Michael's mother Ethel to try to halt this family tradition. "They told her there was a rough game going on," a source close to the company told TIME. "They wanted it stopped...
...been scheduled earlier, the Dec. 18 dinner was the turning point for U.S. policymakers. Japanese markets had dipped nearly 6% overnight, and the Dow Jones industrial average had dropped more than 100 points. Fears were spreading that an Asian recession would shrink earnings of American companies and halt the U.S. economy's remarkable and long-running growth. Just that morning, South Korea's foreign-exchange reserves had fallen to less than $10 billion. Default was about 10 days away...
...pursue a country that is striving to produce destructive weapons, when the U.S. has yet to get rid of its own nuclear weapons? We are now faced with individuals like Saddam, whose priority is to build weapons and not feed Iraq's children. What can the U.N. do to halt such endeavors by power-hungry autocrats, when the five Security Council members are the world's only declared nuclear-weapons states? MAYURA K. WIJESINGHE Colombo, Sri Lanka...