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...Titan, the nation's most powerful unmanned space vehicle, had come to symbolize the paralyzed U.S. space program. In August 1985 a Titan exploded only a few minutes into flight. In April 1986 disaster struck again during lift-off. In the interim, the Challenger tragedy put a halt to manned space flight...
...collapse mostly has hurt the pocketbooks of big-time investors. But trickle-down theory applies to economic downturns as well as upturns. If the economy grinds to a halt, all will suffer. As the President grows increasingly irrelevant and out of touch with reality, it will be up to the Congress--Republicans and Democrats alike--to pick up the pieces left by Ronald Reagan's incompetence...
...didn't matter, as usual. The first-period plague hasn't stopped Harvard yet this season. Neither has a slew of injuries or an offensive slump. It looks like nothing short of a natural disaster will halt the crusading Crimson this year...
Even so, examples of success can be found. Fighting in the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 was brought to an abrupt halt when Washington and Moscow co-sponsored a U.N. resolution to force the belligerents to accept a cease-fire. For years Arab gulf leaders have cited that demonstration of what can be accomplished when the superpowers work together. It supports their devout belief, they say privately, that the Iran-Iraq war could be stopped if Moscow and Washington decide to stop...
...Popular Front of the 15th of October" seized the government to "halt the restoration of neo-colonialism being undertaken by the traitor to the revolution," the radio said in a broadcast monitored in Abidjan...