Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk about peaceful solutions, it is not clear what kind of compromise can be negotiated. Last week Chechnya's president Jokhar Dudayev, decked out in camouflage fatigues, held a press conference on the southern outskirts of Grozny to call for a halt to the fighting. There was no military solution to the crisis, he said, and peace could be agreed on "in a day, in an hour, at the stroke of a pen." But Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, waffled when asked if he would drop his demand for independence and settle for autonomy inside the Russian Federation...
...factory is living off day-to-day, shift-to-shift inventories," says TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "One walkout can shut down everyone else." Negotiations between the two sides continued today. The United Auto Workers union predicts that if the walkout continues, dozens of GM factories nationwide will halt production within the week...
Nichols had requested an injunction in federal court to halt what the company characterized as a hostile takeover attempt by the Harvard Private Capital Group--a division of Harvard Management Corporation--and Allen & Co., a New York investment firm...
Larry Rowe, an attorney who represents the Harvard capital group in its dealings with J.C. Nicholas, also confirmed that Nichols has dismissed, the group from its action to halt the hostile takeover...
...when the characters of "Sesame Street" find themselves out on the street holding pink slips. Unfortunately, that may happen if Newt Gingrich succeeds in his efforts to halt Congressional funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting...