Word: halte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...island, centered on the industrialized north, where virtually all Turkish Cypriots now live. Nearly 200,000 Greek Cypriots were forced to flee, joining their 320,000 ethnic brethren in the south. Blaming the U.S. for supporting the hated junta, which collapsed after the Cyprus coup, and for failing to halt the Turkish invasion, Greece's Constantine Caramanlis severed his country's military connection with NATO...
...Radcliffe administration staged a running battle with residents of Cambridge's Observatory Hill neighborhood, the proposed site of a new Radcliffe gymnasium. The residents lobbied the City Council to change the zoning regulations on the area, in an attempt to halt the planned expansion. Radcliffe, meanwhile, pushed for completion of the project, as the residents' delaying tactics pushed projected costs up through the gym roof...
...city-wide moratorium bill stems from a petition residents of the Observatory Hill section of Cambridge submitted to the City Council earlier this year, demanding that the council halt construction in that neighborhood by several non-profit institutions, including Harvard...
...that time, the council passed a one-year moratorium on construction in a limited part of Observatory Hill that excluded the area in which Harvard planned to build a gymnasium. It did, however, temporarily halt construction...
Driven by winds and currents, enough of these icebergs could drift southeastward into Prince William Sound and the waterways now used by supertankers ferrying oil south to virtually halt traffic. Explains Coast Guard Captain Ronald Kollmeyer: "When you have literally thousands of icebergs in the shipping lanes, you can't drive an 800-to 900-ft. tanker through that sort of gauntlet." Last August, the glacier's calving increased enough to force closing of the Valdez lanes to night traffic for nearly a week...