Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NATO had dearly hoped to prevent--a widening of the Balkan war--seemed by Friday to have occurred, as Croatia joined the fighting. Not a very good record for any week, much less one that was supposed to be marked by the West's new determination to halt the slaughter...
...sometimes ferocious debate, the board met to consider whether to end a 30-year effort to include more blacks, Latinos and Native Americans among the system's some 160,000 students. The meeting was interrupted by a bomb threat, punctuated by protests from radical feminists and brought to a halt when the Rev. Jesse Jackson linked arms with other protesters to sing We Shall Overcome. At that point, the regents fled to a separate meeting room...
...things being done here which will violate and undermine our chances to achieve common ground." The President suggested the GOP was leaving him little choice but to veto fiscal 1996 appropriations bills -- an action that could (in theory) bring the federal government to a grinding halt. Citing a Congressional Budget Office analysis that found Clinton's plan would lead to a $209 billion deficit in the 10th year, Republican chairman Haley Barbour retorted: "Clinton doesn't have a 10-year plan to balance the budget.Republicans cannot compromise with a phantom plan...
...demand from the Unabomber: publish his 35,000-word anarchist manifesto, and he'll end a 17-year campaign of murder through the mail. Both newspapers received the mailed document Thursday. The newspapers would have to print three follow-up messages a year, and the Unabomberhas not promised to halt a campaign of blowing up buildings or other property.The offer has thrown the journalistic world onto the horns of a dilemma: "The bomber might be satisfied or he might not be," says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York. "The ante might...
...York Times and The Washington Post today. If either paper publishes the 35,000-word manuscript, which rails against a corrupt industrial-technological society, the bomber would stop killing people. The newspapers would have to print three follow-up messages a year, and the Unabomber has not promised to halt a campaign of property damage.Unabomber Page