Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make the first nonstop, round-the-world balloon flight, the 174-foot "Global Challenger" experienced technical problems and the three-man crew was forced to land in the Algerian wilderness. "At one stage I was standing by the door chucking out everything movable - oil canisters, food, anything - to halt the descent," Branson said. "I thought, "What am I doing up here?" The acknowledged hero of the safe landing was engineer Alex Ritchie, himself a last-minute replacement for a sick crewman, who climbed outside the capsule to jettison a one-ton fuel tank, slowing the rapid fall...
...very pleased," said Dusan Vasiljevic, one of the students. If the army holds to its pledge, it represents a shift in the role that the military will play in Belgrade. In March of 1991, Serb President Slobodan Milosevic brought army tanks onto the streets of Belgrade to halt protests. He also used the military to launch wars in Croatia later that year and in Bosnia in 1992. But Milosevic has neglected the army in favor of a strong police force, a slight that may cost him. The students have also asked for a meeting with Serbia's police chief, Zoran...
RENO: This is how bad the flooding is in Reno, Nevada: even gambling has come to a halt. Some of the worst flooding in decades continues to plague five western states, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, closing major highways, and closing, for the first time in 60 years, Reno's Harrah's Casino. The governors of California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho have declared 70 counties disaster areas. More than 15 people have been killed by the flooding, brought on by a series of storms that have swept through the area since December...
Virtually every AIDS expert agrees that only an effective vaccine can halt the epidemic. Yet after more than a decade of trying to develop one, scientists have made little headway. The failure can be traced in part to the notorious craftiness of the virus itself. Researchers still aren't sure what part of the immune system confers protection against HIV, and until they are, they won't be able to induce immunity with a vaccine...
...however, the birthday party came to a crashing halt. In quick succession, a hole was blown in a retaining wall from an adjoining house, hand grenades were thrown at the embassy guardhouse and about 25 rebels belonging to a group known as the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement stormed into the compound. As the insurgents engaged police in a ferocious gun battle, everyone--Peruvian ministers, blue-chip business tycoons, assembled diplomats and their wives--dropped to the ground. "Don't lift your head," the rebels barked, "or it'll be shot...