Word: halt
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Lightning delayed the game twice in the second half, and the scoring came to a dead halt in the resulting mud. The Cavaliers scored two goals to the Tigers' one to send the game into overtime...
...WERE seething. Demonstrating under a hot Transvaal sun in Potchefstroom last week, they shouted down a junior minister in President F.W. de Klerk's Cabinet when he rose to address them. Then they gave a standing ovation to retired South African Defense Force chief Constand Viljoen, who demanded a halt to De Klerk's negotiations with the African National Congress and other parties...
There is only one problem with this fabled success story: the rescuers may have arrived too late. No matter how quickly manufacturers halt the production of CFCs, billions of pounds of the chemicals already produced will continue to seep into the atmosphere and rise inexorably to attack the ozone layer. Worse, measurement after measurement since the mid-1980s has shown that ozone loss has been greater and more rapid than scientists predicted. Last month in Science magazine, researchers disclosed new satellite readings showing that in 1992 the average concentration of ozone in the upper atmosphere around the globe...
Clinton feels the strength of the moral argument for action echoing around Washington but is unwilling to start something without knowing how he will end it. He would like to halt the Serbian aggressors in their tracks, but he wants to take steps that provide clear, achievable objectives and that will encourage rather than cut off a political process leading eventually to a negotiated solution to the tribal wars. If he chooses to bomb the Serbs, he wants to be convinced that bombs will in due course push them into some mutually acceptable agreement...
This argument cannot be proven wrong. Military predictions are always speculative. But the argument remains insufficient in several ways. Western military intervention would not aim at conquering land, but instead at two other goals: putting real pressure on Serbia to halt the fighting, and leveling the playing field if they still refuse. Air power would be the primary method. These are realistic goals with good prospects of success...