Word: halt
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...poor but eager migrants have become the main targets of murderous racial attacks on foreigners and xenophobic political movements in a dozen countries. With reception facilities overburdened, unemployment rates climbing to a national average of 10% and voters shouting in protest, Western governments are calling a halt. From Sweden in the north to Greece in the south, the Continent echoes with the sound of doors slamming shut...
...debate flared anew last week when two organizations -- the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the Foundation on Economic Trends -- filed suit to halt a National Institutes of Health study that would give HGH to 80 boys and girls. The youngsters' pituitary glands produce typical amounts of HGH, and the children are within the normal height range for their ages of nine to 15, but they are shorter than average. The study had been suspended a year ago after the two groups accused the agency of violating federal regulations governing research with healthy children, but was resumed recently following...
...electronic intercepts, which is used to apply pressure on importing and exporting nations. In some instances Washington quietly asks a friendly capital to stop certain exports because they are being diverted to a weapons program. In other cases the U.S. and its allies sometimes use covert action to halt the shipments...
...Modena, Italy, last fall, police rounded up more than 100 women from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and points east. Allegedly lured as dancers by a self-described theatrical agent, they were then forced "to be nice to customers or else." The agent is now awaiting trial. Even war does not halt the traffic. In Kac, a cluster of rundown farmhouses in northern Serbia, dark-haired Valenka gyrates half nude at the local bar and beckons customers upstairs for one-on-one at $62 an hour. The 24-year-old emigrated from Donetsk, in Ukraine, where her meat-packer parents earned...
...syndrome" -- the woman for whom the drug was prescribed might pass it on to a cousin or friend, who has not had a gynecological exam. In rare cases, that woman may be having undetected problems, such as a tubal pregnancy, a potentially lethal complication that the pills would not halt...