Word: haltingly
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...medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. "But the magnitude of risk does seem to differ from drug to drug." It's now up to the FDA to decide whether the dangers, which in some drugs start to appear only at high doses, warrant its strongest, black-box warning, which would halt direct-to- consumer advertising and restrict use of the drugs to patients with the greatest medical need...
...similar groups would ignore the cease-fire because they were not officially signatories to it, Abbas has been remarkably successful in convincing such groups to lay down their arms. After meeting in Gaza with Abbas yesterday, Hamas pledged to stop violence against Israel as part of a general halt in attacks by all militant groups. Hamas even went so far as to foreswear retaliatory actions if Palestinians are attacked by Israel and agreed to consult the Palestinian Authority before taking any reprisals...
...Bush's multilateral strategy for preventing Pyongyang from acquiring nukes has failed just as dramatically as Clinton's policy of direct engagement did a decade ago. It means that even when they are united, Beijing, Moscow, Tokyo, Seoul and Washington haven't found the right combination of levers to halt nuclear proliferation by a rogue state. And it probably means that even if the U.S. and its allies can coax Pyongyang back into negotiations--a big if--their hand is weakened by what the declaration described as Kim's "arsenal." At a time when the Bush Administration is trying...
...says Pyongyang's tactics are designed to stall for time and force concessions from outsiders before sitting down to talk again. The only way to counter it, he believes, is to take swift action both jointly and alone. Japan, he argues, could cut off all shipping; South Korea could halt its many industrial and tourism projects with the North; the U.S. could again press for economic sanctions at the U.N. And the Chinese, Lilley says, could "go to the North Koreans, put their arms around their shoulders, kiss them on both cheeks and then whisper in their ears...
...game looking very businesslike after its shocking loss to Dartmouth on Friday night, and—after a series of crisp offensive sets yielded several layups and open threes—held a 14-9 lead with 10:32 to play. But Rogus checked in from downtown to halt a 7-2 Tigers run, igniting the capacity crowd of 2,030, and sending Harvard on a hot stretch that would see it grab a 28-22 halftime lead...