Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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General Services Administration officials at first refused to halt construction of the skyscraper, but congressional intervention, complaints from New York's city hall and a shower of protests from black organizations forced the GSA to cancel its plans. The site is now part of a proposed historic district...
Arab reaction to Rabin's move was mixed. Syria dismissed the policy change as a p.r. trick. But Palestinian delegates, following a meeting with Baker in Jerusalem, backed away from their threats to walk from the talks in the absence of a complete halt in settlement building. Egypt showed the most enthusiasm. After his tete-a-tete with Rabin, President Hosni Mubarak lauded Israel's "good step on the right track." While he cautioned that "we need much more," Mubarak expressed confidence in his Israeli counterpart. "The man is only one week in office," he said. "What do you expect...
Washington warmly welcomed new Israeli Prime Minister YITZHAK RABIN's decision last week to call a temporary halt to new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But a major sticking point in U.S.-Israeli relations remains. The White House wants to sell 72 F-15 Eagle bombers to Saudi Arabia. Israel strongly opposes the sale, but McDonnell Douglas and its suppliers have been pressing Bush to let the sale go through. Last week the powerful 800,000- member International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers added to the election-year pressure on Bush, insisting that...
Rollerblading at breakneck speed down Newbury Street, Thomas as brought to a painfully abrupt halt when the door of a parked automobile swung suddenly open, placing a steel wall directly in his path. The 19-year old managed to escape massive injury by dragging one skate sideways behind him to slow down and breaking the inevitable crash with thrust-forward arms...
...investors, the biggest concern involves the hazards of entrusting huge and sensitive financial markets so totally to computers, notoriously prone to breakdowns and break-ins. Warns Fred Shipley, professor of finance at DePaul University: "A computer bug could bring the capital markets to a crashing halt." Last month, for instance, a minor computer failure at the Chicago Board Options Exchange shut down trading for about 90 minutes. Although the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has tested Globex to its satisfaction, it cannot guarantee that the system will be fail-safe. Concedes chairman Wendy Gramm: "We haven't thought of every contingency...