Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buyers in particular--catch their breath. Of course, we had never had to use the collars, so who knew? Didn't take long to find out. Traders used these anachronisms, put in when the Dow traded at one-fifth its current valuation, to figure out what to sell. The halt was spooky, flushing sellers from the woodwork when the market reopened. We must have lost 100 points in the time it takes for a bomb to drop from...
There was no need to revisit China's agreement to halt its assistance to Iran's nuclear program. That had finally been worked out just minutes before the meeting. In the past, Chinese arms-control assurances have usually been oral promises or couched in the form of dinner-table toasts. This time the U.S. wanted something in writing that promised to cut off nuclear aid to Tehran. That would open the door for American firms to sell nuclear power reactors to China. When Jiang's plane had touched down three days before in Honolulu, the haggling over the form...
...real enmity between gay activists and the Religious Right. We demonize each other in our fundraising letters and in our speeches, and we caricature one another in our politics. From the time I came out, I always saw the battle as a tiny band of good people trying to halt the huge, powerful "other" on a thousand different fronts...
Tasty-lovers are not going out without a fight. There have been community meetings to halt renovation plans and creative efforts to find a new location...
Pacing is problematic as well: opening up at hyper-speed, the movie rushes to get through the exposition necessary for the convoluted plot. After the kidnapping, though, the action slows almost to a halt; the rest of the movie moves sluggishly, with brief speedy sections. The aggravation of this halting progress is compounded by the fact that during the lulls, rather than actually develop his characters, Boyle chooses instead to meander around the lifeless world that he has created...