Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Halt (Alissi, Clark...
...also computer cowboys of one sort or another. Cyberpunk, a 1991 book by two New York Times reporters, John Markoff and Katie Hafner, features profiles of three canonical cyberpunk hackers, including Robert Morris, the Cornell graduate student whose COMPUTER VIRUS brought the huge network called the INTERNET to a halt...
Clinton temporarily quelled the crisis by reaching an agreement with his principal antagonist on the issue, Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, to halt the practice of asking military recruits about their sexual orientation, while postponing an official lifting of the ban until July 15. With Nunn's support, Clinton had enough swing votes in the Senate to block a Republican attempt -- expected this week -- to write the existing ban into law. And he earned six months to concentrate on more pressing matters while aides worked out the details of a permanent repeal. "I am looking forward to getting on with this...
...should take a page from Ross Perot's scare tactics on the deficit and use this fear. Sad to say, it is only when people become truly frightened (or angry) that the government has some hope of breaking the cycle of enacting feel-good laws that do little to halt environmental decline...
...recite the words of her report, Our Common Future, which cites American economic sanctions as a means of policing agreements on marine conservation. And he might pray that four years later, a successor will not appear to read back to him his own words on how the world can halt environmental decline...