Word: halt
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Browne and Straw, with 2,500 hrs. of flawless flying between them, spent the final seconds of their life steering their Cobra away from a school as its twin engines sputtered, slowing its rotor blades nearly to a halt. Upon impact, the aircraft exploded into a 1,500[degree]F fireball, fed by 300 gal. of jet fuel. The conflagration destroyed the helicopter, making it impossible to determine the cause of the crash...
Shortly after that the CDC called a halt to all inoculations with RotaShield, a new vaccine made available last year. It was designed to protect infants from potentially fatal rotavirus infections, which cause severe diarrhea and dehydration. The agency's action followed word that 23 infants suffered a collapsed bowel after getting the vaccine...
...comes at the same time that the White House finds itself under increasing criticism for having shoveled billions in aid to Moscow through the International Monetary Fund, much of which appears to have been siphoned off by criminal elements. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers was quoted Wednesday as vowing to halt all further IMF aid to Russia until the Kremlin had provided satisfactory accounting for previous loans. Meanwhile, the Yeltsin administration?s performance over the issue hasn?t given Western law enforcement much cause for confidence. The best efforts of a wide array of U.S. agencies to get the Russians...
...great many scientists believe that by continuing to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, humans are forcing drastic climate changes. Yet Congress seems determinedly indifferent. As the lawmakers prepare for their summer adjournment, legislative efforts to slow that warming by reducing greenhouse emissions have all but ground to a halt. Withering too, like so many cornstalks, are other major pro-environmental bills: increased funding for research on energy sources other than fossil fuels; incentives to encourage industries to cut emissions; efforts to clean up power plants; and measures to raise fuel-efficiency standards for gas-slurping SUVs, vans and light...
...otherwise, I was a relative novice at this utterly simple thing of taking a taxi. As the elevator ground to a halt at the lobby, I pondered this revelation with curiosity and nervousness...