Word: haltingly
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...Rumsfeld inelegantly reminded the troops last week, aren't fail-safe: 120 have been destroyed in combat in Iraq. Unlike M1 tanks, even beefed-up humvees can't always stop a rocket-propelled grenade or .50-cal. machine-gun bullet from killing those inside. But they are built to halt armor-piercing 7.62-mm rounds--the kind of bullets fired from AK-47s, an insurgent favorite. The roof is engineered to thwart the blast of a 155-mm artillery shell exploding overhead, and the floor is reinforced to protect passengers from a bomb or a 12-lb. mine buried...
After nearly two years of stubborn optimism, Japan's economic recovery seems to be skidding to a halt. Last week's government figures showed that the country only narrowly avoided a return to recession?defined as two consecutive quarters of decline in gross domestic product?with 0.1% gdp growth in the third quarter following a 0.1% contraction in the second. "We are entering a slow patch, and there is no obvious exit," says Peter Morgan, chief economist at HSBC Securities in Tokyo...
Cavanagh and Welch each saw his personal point-scoring streak brought to a halt this weekend. Welch was held off the scoreboard on both nights, ending his run at six straight games, while Cavanagh netted a pair of goals against Union before behind shut out by RPI on Saturday. He had notched at least one point in seven straight...Three ECAC schools retained spots in the top 15 this week, led by UVM, which moved from No. 11 to No. 10, swapping positions with Maine, Harvard’s Saturday opponent. Cornell and Colgate held steady...
...scholarly research increasingly symbolic and less actual. In view of this, it might well be worth losing some space in Widener for the benefit of a visiting public. Guided visits might lead tourists to the memorial room, the reading room and part of the stacks. Current tours which halt on the steps outside provide tourists with frivolous stories about the founding of the library, but do not offer an insight into its inner workings. Yet it would be crucial to help our guests understand the meaning of a library—how it is not a repository for knowledge...
Plans for this Thursday’s presidential debate ground to a brief halt last week when the Undergraduate Council found itself unable to rent a room due to an outstanding bill...