Word: halte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of the inquiries, Second Classman Timothy Ringgold brought suit in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan to halt them. It was Ringgold who remarked, during a meeting with Army Under Secretary Norman Augustine after the engineering-exam scandal had surfaced, that cheating was "widespread" at the Point. He is now under investigation for having "tolerated" misconduct by fellow cadets...
...presidential election years, the rest of the world wearily assumes that U.S. foreign policy will either come to a halt or else go haywire. This year the main danger seems to be a harsh new belligerency in official U.S. rhetoric as the Ford Administration moves to blunt the strident criticism of conservative Challenger Ronald Reagan...
...Fraser now is trying to persuade some 30 banks, real estate investment trusts and savings and loan associations to accept a stretchout of payments on Sea Pines' debt (now down to $110 million from a high in 1974 of $280 million). He plans a three-to four-year halt in new development projects, while striving to increase profits from operating resorts at Hilton Head and Amelia Island, Fla. The strategy seems to be paying off. In the first two months of the current fiscal year, which started March 1, revenues from Sea Pines Plantation were up more than...
...election postponed for one week, Jumblatt and his choice for President, Raymond Edde, 63, a Christian who had opposed Syrian intervention, kept up a running drumfire last week to delay the election until what they called Syrian "pressure" to secure Sarkis' election had ended. When they failed to halt the proceedings, both Edde and his supporters boycotted the session...
...forests. Their suits therefore seek strict enforcement of the service's original charter. The Organic Act of 1897 specifically permits logging in national forests-but only of "dead, matured or large growth" trees that have been individually marked for cutting. In 1973 the Izaak Walton League sued to halt clear-cutting in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest. Since clear-cutting means the chopping down of every single tree in a given area, including young ones, the court decided against the Forest Service...