Word: haltingly
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...Gorbachev left it unclear whether the SS-20s to be removed from Europe would be destroyed or simply shuttled into Soviet Asia. From there they could be quickly moved back into Europe during a crisis. In addition, London and Paris are unlikely to halt the scheduled modernization of their nuclear forces...
...successfully pressing claims that seem patently silly. One example: a man who attempted suicide by jumping in front of a subway train sued the New York City Transit Authority, contending that the motorman of the subway that hit him had been negligently slow in bringing the train to a halt. He won $650,000 in an out-of-court settlement...
...showdown would have come in the third round, which pitted Shamir's candidate, Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens, against Levy for the chairmanship of the convention steering committee. Instead, the convention ground to a halt when Sharon tried to pack it with 200 pro-Sharon and pro-Levy delegates. Addressing Sharon, Shamir demanded: "Do you think being chairman of the mandates committee is the same thing as being a front commander or Chief of Staff?" Shamir accused Levy of "megalomania" and described the convention as a "circus." Scoffed Levy: "Shamir's behavior is better suited to Disneyland...
...wall of dust the size of grains of sand." The spacecraft's protective dust shields were peppered with particles at a rate of 100 impacts a second, a bombardment that swung its antenna out of alignment with a tracking station in Australia. That brought communications to a halt. But before the blackout, Giotto relayed more than 2,000 images of Halley's back to earth, plus a torrent of data from the ten on-board instruments...
...have condemned this war from the start. We tried, in the early days, to do something to halt it, but we received no response. Regrettably, the war has reached a point where it is hard for anyone to say he has a prescription to treat...