Word: halte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adults are idle, since virtually all business on the mammoth reservation has come to a halt. Families wanting to take in the action have come to Pine Ridge in the dilapidated cars with crunched fenders that are the Indians' trademark. Justice Department people, a few in coats and ties but many more in flak vests, baseball caps and heavy boots, come and go in the area of the BIA building. It is a reunion for many of the federal marshals, distinctive in their flag-bedecked blue jumpsuits. Across the street, on a dried mudbank, sit a line of solemn...
Steiner sees most of the provocative new ideas in Britain as coming from the Continent. "The intellectual traffic over here is tremendous, particularly French Marxism and French structuralism. Psychoanalysis, which has ground to a halt everywhere else, is being given a transfusion of radical sociology in France in psychopolitics: Freudian categories are being applied to the problems of labor, industry and the middle class. Bored with pragmatism and objectivity, the young of Europe are generally moving into an age of myth and irrationality...
...week National Awami Leader Khan Abdul Wali Khan demanded that Bhutto reinstate the governors. "We will take these rights by force if they are not conceded by will," he told a huge angry crowd in Peshawar. Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, the ousted Baluchistan governor, called on the National Assembly to halt the military's interference: "I would like to inform the public that the army action will destroy the unity of what remains of Pakistan forever," he said. Even Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party was divided. The P.P.P. governor in Sind, which borders on Baluchistan, resigned...
...long been obvious that the construction industry could not continue in 1973 the blistering pace of last year, when it started a record 2.4 million dwelling units, but economists and builders originally expected only a mild and healthy decline that would halt incipient overbuilding. Now, however, the National Association of Home Builders fears that starts will fall 20%, to around 1.9 million, the lowest since the recession year of 1970. That would be about twice as sharp a drop as first anticipated, and enough to put a painful crimp in builders' profits and hardhat payrolls...
...outlook has been darkened by President Nixon's decision to halt new federal money for subsidy programs that last year financed the construction of 14% of all housing starts. Three key programs are involved...