Word: halt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Apparently, leaders are starting to realize that this is the situation the world faces in Bosnia. Pressure for military action is mounting from various fronts, including the United States Congress. Senators Robert Dole (R-Kan.) and Joseph Biden (D-Del.), two influential leaders, have called for air strikes to halt the Serbian onslaught...
...Kalkaska, Michigan, the students know all about cramming. They just tried to cram a year into seven months. Their spring term bumped to a halt last week when local school authorities, glumly eyeing a $1.5 million shortfall in their $8.2 million budget, chose to declare summer vacation in March. All through a cold winter, Matt Johnston had trudged to a 7:30 a.m. calculus class he hoped would earn him advanced-placement credit at college next year. Though teachers rushed through their lesson plans as the premature vacation neared, Johnston still wonders whether he should have stayed...
...those factions that the U.S. will be an honest broker in the negotiations. At a minimum, the Serbs might be persuaded that the holdup of truck convoys to starve out the Muslims is now futile. But the airlift might just as easily give the Serbs an additional excuse to halt ground deliveries...
...militia of Omar Jess, a local warlord with close ties to Aidid. Angered that American forces in the town allowed this to happen, Aidid accused them of engineering the attack and called for widespread demonstrations against the foreign force. Relief operations in the capital ground to a halt as aid workers confined themselves to their heavily guarded compounds after the fatal shooting of an Irish nurse earlier in the week...
Chow and his colleagues found that AZT and ddI, added separately, caused the virus to mutate to different forms, but did little to halt its function...