Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...door on Monday morning to read proudly of my team's accomplishments at the Ivy League Championships over the weekend. I flipped to the Sports Page and scoured the headlines: "Gridders Grind to Halt," "Effort Just Isn't Enough," "Stickwomen Hit Rock Bottom Against Green," "Restic Makes Adjustments in Offense," "Dance the Night Away...
...loss of Soviet aid, Cuban exile groups are rethinking their strategy and calling for more dialogue with the Castro regime to prevent a violent transition if communism collapses. Liberal Cuban Americans blame Mas for trying to upset that process. "The whole point of the Cuban Democracy Act was to halt the transformation of Cuba," argues Alicia Torres, executive director of the Cuban American Committee. "Mas' only hope is to create violence. Is that what the rest of the U.S. wants?" Mas counters that the act actually safeguards Cuba's future by requiring elections within six months and making sure Washington...
With no mention whatsoever of the first democratically elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, John Paul II called for a halt to sanctions against the military regime that ousted him, as well as "an end to sterile divisions...and a church united around its bishops...
...dealership in Hialeah. Worried about the city's image, irate animal-rights activists, community leaders and politicians united to pass an anti-sacrifice ordinance in 1987. For animal-rights groups, it was a natural extension of long-established laws on animal cruelty or of more recent crusades to halt animal research...
...hopes for a grand reunion with Eastern Orthodoxy. Nor do the Protestants show much interest in mergers; unruliness characterizes the Evangelicals, Charismatics and independent African churches. The Protestant liberals, only vaguely Christian any longer, harbor anger about Rome's decisive moves in the 2040s to restrict Bible criticism and halt efforts to blur the lines between Christianity and other religions...