Word: halte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite a series of deadline confusions, the residents of Observatory Hill last night persisted in voicing their support of a down-zoning petition which they hope will halt construction of the proposed Radcliffe athletic facility...
...just that the bucket of dollars held abroad is full to the brim, and any additions cause it to overflow. So long as this trend prevails, no amount of central bank intervention can halt the monetary jitters that are shaking the system...
...welcome as even a temporary halt to oil price hikes will be for Western economies still staggering from past increases, OPEC'S decision offers only a respite at best. After last week's meeting, Yamani said that Saudi Arabia would cut back production until the oil surplus disappeared and intimated that OPEC would then, presumably in 1979, start sending prices higher again. Even the new production in the North Sea, Alaska and Mexico, moreover, will not be enough in the long run to break OPEC'S corner on world oil supplies. All the oil found so far in Alaska...
...searching for a way to solve the dilemma, the IWC and the U.S. have adopted a strategy that has the disadvantages of both possibilities and the advantages of neither. By tossing the Eskimos a few crumbs (whales), the IWC insults their dignity and fails to halt the decline of their culture. And given the likelihood that the Eskimos will kill more than 12 whales anyway, the compromise will contribute to the extinction of the bowhead. Though the drawbacks of a total ban on bowhead whaling should not be glossed over, it is the best solution...
...system is adequate for disabled passengers. He prefers specially constructed vans, which already provide door-to-door service in Dade County for more than 800 people a day, but he expects that the high cost of the transbuses (as much as $50,000 more than a regular bus) will halt the expansion of the special van service. Still, the transbuses will soon be introduced in one of the nation's largest public transportation systems, the Southern California Rapid Transit District in Los Angeles...