Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conjunction with the release, historians, Douglas Shand-Tucci '72, author of Built in Bostore, Margaret H. Floyd, author of a book on Harvard architectural history; and Leland M. Roth, professor of architectural history at the University of Oregon, are drafting a letter to Rudenstine asking him to halt the construction on the Union until there can be further discussion over the plans, Shand-Tucci said...
...ANGERED BY YOUR ARTICLE "KNOWing When to Stop." We doctors know when to halt medical treatment. However, our hands are tied. If we stop treating, we are sued, taken to court and, in some cases, jailed. Navigating the paperwork, ethics committees and legal issues of withdrawing support requires more heroics by the physician than continuing treatment. To blame physicians for the money spent in the last six months of life is like blaming the Marines for the decisions made by the generals. CHARLES E. WHITING, M.D. Glendale, California...
...military bars its troops from actively participating in groups pushing racist or other antisocial aims, but Pentagon officials concede the First Amendment guarantee of free speech and assembly restricts their ability to halt membership in such outfits. Police reportedly found "resistance magazines" among Burmeister's belongings. Fort Bragg is home to the Special Forces Underground, a clandestine group that publishes the Resister, a newsletter that espouses the extreme positions that proliferate among right-wing militias. In a recent policy statement, the Underground announced its opposition to "liberalism, altruism, internationalism, tribalism, democracy ... [and] the ideologies of all tyrannies." The role...
...works project. A highway was too narrow to handle the increasing flow of traffic, so the authorities brought in heavy equipment to widen it. Partway through the job, however, a road-leveling tractor uncovered the opening to a cave no one knew was there. Work came to an immediate halt, and within hours a scientific swat team descended on the site to study...
...there was no mission or goal in Vietnam. The religious hatreds and the war in Bosnia have been ongoing for hundreds of years. Putting American kids in the path of certain death and injury will not accomplish a thing. The most American troops could accomplish would be to halt the genocide to some degree until our troops leave, and they will leave as soon as the public sees them dying on the nightly television news. Then the killing and the hatred will resume again, and American kids will have died for nothing. JOHN B. CURRY III Belchertown, Massachusetts...