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Villiote's career almost came to a halt before it even had a chance to get started. She was looking to play hockey when she began school at Shrewsbury High in Shrewsbury, Mass...
...William Perry was in a quandary. What if the Russians decided to sell more submarines to Iran? He couldn't tell them to stop -- not with a straight face. "They observe that the U.S. is No. 1 on the list," Perry told Time after failing to persuade Moscow to halt such sales earlier this year, "and why should we be taking a holier-than-thou attitude and telling them not to sell their weapons?" That predicament is not new. The U.S. has always made arms, sold them and then criticized others for doing the same. But it was somewhat easier...
...with an unsolicited promotional mailing, triggering a flood of angry E-mail massive enough to knock them off the Net. A few years earlier a single "worm" program, designed by a Cornell student to explore the network, multiplied out of control and brought hundreds of computer systems to a halt...
Blistered 5-2 by New Hampshire on Wednesday, the team's momentum from last weekend's decisive 4-1 win over Brown screeched to a halt...
...Millions of dollars in lost revenue that cannot be recovered" will result from the halt on Question 5's enactment, Hurst told reporters...