Word: halte
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...plight of Nations Air showed the public's concern about the safety of low-cost airlines as investigators dredged the swampy ValuJet crash site for clues to the cause of the accident. Such fear of budget flying could result in higher U.S. airfares if no-frills carriers halt or cut back service. ValuJet, which suspended 50% of its 320 daily flights after the accident, said last week it doesn't intend to return to full service before the fourth quarter...
...buying votes is common the world over, so is the attempt of one politician to steal his rival's thunder. Yeltsin began his campaign by promising he would not "deviate from [his reforms] a single centimeter. A halt or any attempt to reverse them," he said ominously, "would deal a crushing blow to the country from which it might never recover." But the officials most closely associated with his reforms have been fired, and more than once Yeltsin has said he is still "for reforms, but not at any price; I am for correcting the course...
Blanchard also feared the loss of a pension that a court-martial might mean. He offered to resign if the Coast Guard would halt its probe, but on March 10, he was turned down. Three days later, Blanchard met with Vice Admiral Arthur Henn, the Coast Guard's No. 2 officer, to ask for time off. "His face was drawn and a little pale," Henn said. "He was mortified that he had caused such potential embarrassment to the Coast Guard and his family...
...political gain went to the other side. Seven months after the fiscal year began, Congress finally passed a 1996 budget that included $23 billion in G.O.P. cuts. Legal services to the poor, subsidized public housing and the National Endowment for the Arts took sharp hits. Republicans promised to halt the growth of government spending, and they...
...death two years ago saddened everyone, but it also reminded the boomers that they were entering their 50s and being crowded from below by younger people with different cultural experiences and no special fondness for the shared memories of their elders. The Jackie auction promised an opportunity to halt the slide toward death and anonymity, to grab some tangible relic from the days when the world seemed filled with hope and high spirits...