Word: halte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business leaders have risen up in alarm to fight it. "There's no place in the world like California for new companies," says Richard Hill, the chairman and CEO of Novellus Systems, a San Jose semiconductor-equipment manufacturer. "But this bill will bring that to a screeching halt...
...margins of safety are in the eye of the beholder, as Chrysler's Zyburt and I discover about halfway around one of the track's cobblestone lanes. "This is where it gets rough on our test drivers," he warns me, just as, on cue, the Jeep slams to a halt, throwing us painfully against our seat belts. "Oops," Zyburt says sheepishly. He has accidentally bumped into the system-override "kill'' button set in the back seat. If this had been a real smartway, we might have found ourselves at the business end of a multicar pileup...
...spacecraft's dwindling power, he has shut down all but three of its 11 scientific instruments, and by early next year only one--Van Allen's cosmic ray detector--will be able to function. Citing operational costs and the diminishing scientific return, NASA has ordered Wirth to halt all communications with Pioneer next year on March...
Maxfield, a retired law professor, supports welfare reform and federal service programs like Americorps. Like many Wyoming Democrats, he thinks Barbara Cubin is vulnerable because she received only 53% of the vote in 1994, the Republican's big year--but to win, he will have to halt Wyoming's 20-year Republican run in the House...
...Helms-Burton law is creating diplomatic havoc. Europe, Asia and Latin America are ignoring Washington's demand to halt trade with Cuba and threatening economic retaliation against the U.S. if Clinton carries out the law's most severe penalties. Ironically, Castro has benefited politically from the crisis. A CIA estimate this summer concluded that the new sanctions have actually strengthened his regime, handing it a convenient excuse to crack down on dissidents. "We're left now with a relationship that's more dysfunctional than during the cold war," says Robert Pastor, an NSC expert on Latin America during the Carter...