Word: halte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charges that the block associations are racist, Norine answers that her sole aim is to stop block busting rather than prevent black families from moving in. She is quick to quash rumors of a black takeover, and has made the rounds of the real estate offices to demand a halt to scare tactics. Still, surrounded by more complainers than doers like herself, she wonders how long she can hold...
...collections to fall below expectations, while joblessness has jacked up government expenditures for unemployment compensation and welfare. Although it has become an intellectual fad to question the need for vigorous economic growth, no Governor, mayor or federal budget director can have any doubt about the meaning of a halt or even a slowdown: fiscal disaster...
...President and Mrs. Nixon seem more interested in posing for pictures than in actually walking on the wall. The President finally calls a halt before another ascent. "We will not climb to the top today," he tells his host. "We are already meeting at the summit in Peking." Then he delivers a final homily. "As we look at this wall, we do not want walls of any kind between people...
With a POP and a crash, the world's most prestigious and powerful university ground to a halt Saturday morning, as President Derek Bok hobbled painfully to the sideline...
With a POP a crash, the world's most prestigious and powerful university ground to a halt this morning, as President Derek Bok hobbled painfully to the sidelines...