Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best, only keep peace, who is to make peace? Who is to stop the fighting, halt the aggression? The answer is simple: the world's one great power -- the United States -- joined by whatever friends choose to help...
...this period, becoming a superachiever in school and a drudge at community service. He not only played in the band but also helped its director organize statewide musical events. He was a devoted Boy Scout. His readiness to volunteer was so great that his high school principal called a halt when she felt adults were exploiting him -- as when the local heart fund wanted to make him an officer. "Bill just couldn't say no to these requests," she told Clinton's mother...
...hell of it." While comparisons to the international disbelief, blindness and indifference that enabled Hitler to carry out his "final solution" are overblown, Baker hinted at such a parallel on May 24 at an international conference in Lisbon. It was just bracing enough to renew Western determination to halt the slaughter...
...Indeed, many are concerned that environmental problems are so large that they soon may pass a point where anything significant can be done. Of all problems none is more irreversible than the extinction problem; every time a , species is lost unnecessarily, a 3.5 billion-year lineage comes to a halt...
...Stronger sanctions against Serbia, however, including a total trade embargo or a freeze of foreign assets, might only encourage Milosevic to hunker down even more. Short of large-scale military intervention, a prospect no one countenances, it appears, sadly, that no force exists with sufficient power and pluck to halt the slaughter...