Word: halt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Public Service skirted bankruptcy in 1984 and had to halt Seabrook construction for three months until the state Supreme Court let it borrow $425 million, the largest utility financing deal in U.S. history...
Will Soviet citizens have an extra cause to celebrate during this year's May Day festivities? If a report in Pravda is to be believed, the 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan could start coming home May 1. The Soviets still insist, however, that the U.S. first halt support for the mujahedin rebel groups -- something the Reagan Administration has refused to do until Moscow agrees on a definite timetable for its pullout. Said a skeptical U.S. official: "We're waiting for that crucial missing link, which is a Soviet decision on withdrawal...
...extend Contra aid and the Senate should follow suit the next day, Hamilton said, "the effect would be a continuation of the war and an escalation of the war, with results we could neither predict nor control. It would also mean the...peace process would come to a halt...
...prognoses for Haiti's pending election vary, but none are promising. At best, the election will simply be called off. At worst, Haitians predict a bloodbath of the sort that brought last November's presidential contest to a halt just three hours into the balloting. Many Haitians are now forecasting that if Brigadier General Henri Namphy, head of the ruling junta, feels he cannot impose his choice of a President on the rest of the army, he will postpone or cancel the voting. From Port-au-Prince to Washington, virtually everybody seems to discount the possibility of a fair contest...
...tests for kindergarten through ninth grade. Those who failed were held back, including almost 10,000 kindergartners over five years. Green negotiated millions in corporate gifts to the school system. And he broke segregation patterns with busing, magnet schools and careful (some thought rigid) monitoring of racial balance. To halt white flight, he organized tours of a turned-around school for real estate agents. They were impressed. So are education observers, who now rate the system among the nation's best. Even his critics, who consider him arrogant and closed-minded, are grudgingly admiring. Says Len Biernat, a law professor...