Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: Shrugging off its tree-hugging past like a youthful indiscretion, the Clinton Administration plans to show this week's U.N. Earth Summit that green is now the color of dollar-denominated economic booms, not just campaigns to halt global warming. In a welcoming speech strangely at odds with his onetime reputation as the Clinton Administration's fiercest environmental warrior, Vice President Al Gore conceded that action on global warming is needed, but steered clear of specifics. "It's a big capitulation to industry," says TIME's Dick Thompson. "What's driving the U.S. economic expansion is greenhouse gases." Case...
...after months of protesting, HUCTW and the University inked an agreement to halt the reduction of part-time worker health benefits for another year...
...beginning, there was EGG--for Ethnicity, Geography and Gender, the three factors used by Clinton to select nominees. Those characteristics still count, but sheer desperation to avoid any hint of S--for Scandal--has nearly choked the process to a halt. Burned by an outspoken Joycelyn Elders and a bumbling Henry Foster, Clinton has yet to name a Surgeon General. The Administration is dawdling even on routine appointments such as the promotion of David Lipton from Treasury Assistant Secretary to Undersecretary...
...cover, which has been assailed by many Asian-Americans nationwide as racist and offensive, will be the target of a campus-wide campaign to halt Asian-American stereotypes in the media...
Lighthouse Magazine, a "forum for the discussion of women's issues," published a March 1997 issue after near-bankruptcy caused the student group to halt production for a semester...