Word: halting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goofily informal place to work. Decor ran to Star Wars figures and giant papier-mache Pez dispensers, a wedding gift when Pierre and Pam tied the knot. The first employees had to assemble their own desks, and everyone sat on fold-up beach chairs. Work ground to a halt at 3 p.m. for Nerf soccer games...
...standards are being set based on this study. If there are actual health effects, then it is fine," Kovacs said. "If you say you are going to limit highway construction and put serious limitations on and virtually halt industrial productions, you have to have some basis of fact...
...stuff like that, I would say on a daily basis. A lot of times, he was walking around down in the dumps." Yet the sergeant let the trash talking continue, contrary to Army policy. "Everybody was having fun," Kleifgen said, trying to explain why he hadn't ordered a halt...
...radio blared music while the soldiers played Wiffle ball and drained a keg of beer. Although 21 is the legal drinking age in Kentucky, younger troops--like the 18-year-old Glover--downed many beers that night. A staff sergeant on duty in the barracks did nothing to halt the illegal drinking. Glover and Winchell kept away from each other, one soldier said, and there was no overt hostility between them. As midnight drew closer, the keg dribbled dry. Glover began whacking the empty aluminum cask with the Wiffle-ball...
...ability to track and help prevent a disease," notes TIME science writer Christine Gorman. "And the privacy concerns are greatly heightened in the case of HIV." Which forces HIV and gay advocacy groups to confront the burning question: Which do you value more - your privacy or the chance to halt this plague...