Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most dramatic headlines came in late April from Columbia University, where 200 students seized five major buildings, occupied and vandalized the office of Columbia President Grayson Kirk, held the college dean captive for 24 hours, and brought classes to a halt for six days...
Edward B. Childs, a co-chief shop steward for the labor union who works at the Adams House dining hall, said the decision not to pursue arbitration would not bring to a halt the efforts of Hicks' co-workers to win his job back...
...have plenty of liquid funds left: they hold nearly $3 trillion in low-yielding investments like bank CDs and are likely to continue moving them into stocks. Even if share prices start to tumble, experts say, fund managers and cash-rich individuals will swiftly scoop up bargains and thereby halt the slide before it can erode the market 20% -- the level that indicates a bear market has begun. Last Friday the market closed at 3437.19, up 9.64 points for the week and down 41.42 points from its April 16 peak...
...rights. The decision abides by the company's investment guidelines, adopted last year. A Chinese Foreign Ministry official downplayed the impact. "At present there are tens of thousands of foreign companies investing in China," he said. "If one or two want to withdraw, please do." Levi's withdrawal will halt production of 5 million pants and shirts a year...
...from clear that the truce would hold. Many such accords have broken down over the past year, and the Serbs have not honored their April 18 agreement to halt the siege of Srebrenica. The Bosnian government is also mixing its signals. It formally asked the 9,000 U.N. troops in the country to leave because their governments are using their presence as an excuse for not lifting the arms embargo...