Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After learning of what he termed "the problem," Bruce wrote in the electronic mail message to the council saying that he would "try to halt further distribution until Monday." That message was forwarded to The Crimson by a council member requesting anonymity...
Officials there are trying to halt the spread by sprinkling vaccine laced food near raccoon habitats on the island, he said...
...Everything from the nation and around the world was coming to our warehouse," Kluttz says. "I knew if we messed this up, it would either slow or halt the operation...
President Clinton called Russian President Boris Yeltsin to urge him tomake the cease-fire in Chechnya permanent. Yeltsin had ordered a halt in fighting until after Clinton's visit to Moscow to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. Clinton called Yeltsin's order a welcome first step but he remains concerned about Russia's massive use of force to keep Chechnyan territory. Will Yeltsin have a change of heart? There has been no indication yet, butTIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovichsays "the government wants to create a good mood for the Clinton visit," but their actions...
...which the State Department has been quietly preparing ever since. But goaded by a core of MIA families capitalizing on the President's reluctance to alienate those who lost relatives in a war he avoided fighting, the White House has now brought the pas de deux to a halt...