Word: haltingly
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...above the global community, but that we should instead be equal partners in the world. To achieve that goal, he said, the United States needs to work with others to protect the environment and reduce nuclear proliferation. He called for the reinstatement of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the halt of funding for nuclear weapons and the end of the U.S. space weapons development program...
After Beatty’s first layup and a three-pointer by junior captain and small forward Jason Norman doubled the Crimson’s halftime advantage to 10 just 47 seconds into the second half, Draughan assisted on an Alex Gamboa three to halt Harvard’s mini...
...Japan was during its boom years. Few countries have embraced globalization at greater risk. The shutdown of inefficient state-owned plants has cost China tens of millions of jobs, with more to go. On a more pragmatic level, the U.S. needs China's cooperation on everything from trying to halt North Korea's nuclear- weapons program to building support for Iraq policy in the United Nations. That suggests Washington should play the trade card only sparingly. For now, the two sides are getting along well politically. China emerged as a global trade power 10 years ago, when it knocked...
...Insurgents killed two Afghans at a government military post near the former Taliban stronghold of Khost in the south-east late last week, hours after local militia showered 20 rockets on the city's airport, triggering fire from U.S. forces based nearby. Away from the front lines, efforts to halt Afghanistan's opium trade are failing. After taking office in 2001, Afghan President Hamid Karzai outlawed...
...large civic opposition movement. The insurrection has sparked a humanitarian crisis by disrupting the distribution of food and clean water, and Florida is bracing for a new exodus of refugees. It's hardly surprising, given the fact that Haiti's economy has ground almost entirely to a halt, as poverty, AIDS and rampaging violence and criminality have reduced life expectancy to an average of around 49 years, that the government is under mounting pressure to quit. The formal political opposition coalition blames Aristide for the chaos: They have never accepted the results of legislative elections in 2000 that were deemed...