Word: haltingly
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...January. Medical workers are wary of his plans to overhaul France's health-care system. Actors and stagehands, outraged by his tightening of their unemployment benefits, shut down the summer culture season. Strikes by teachers and transport employees, incensed over his plans to reform pensions, brought the country to halt in May and June. And leading members of his own party are slamming his economic and social policies for being everything from too liberal to insufficiently ambitious. But since this is France, which has so often proved itself impervious to reform, fierce opposition like that means Prime Minister Jean-Pierre...
...take an oath to follow the orders of their civilian leaders. Their power comes from influencing those leaders before final decisions are made. By that standard, Clark didn't get what he wanted in the 1999 Kosovo war. He fought to have ground troops to force Slobodan Milosevic to halt the killing of thousands of Albanian Kosovars in the province of Kosovo, which might have made military sense but would have shattered NATO unity. But the Clinton Administration took ground troops off the table early, as a way to preserve the alliance (some NATO members didn't want to attack...
...ramshackle oil industry (much of its technology dates back to the 1970s) will make hardly any money this year from exporting oil, and only $12 billion next year. From 2005 onward, oil revenues could pull in $20 billion a year, but that would require buoyant oil prices and a halt to the widespread sabotage of wells and pipelines...
...much less likely to leak radioactive material before the sub could be recovered. "There's no telling how [K-159] will hold up under water," this source says. The wreckage is under crushing pressure, 781 ft. down, and its hull is deeply corroded. Although its reactors ground to a halt 15 years ago, the spent nuclear fuel--1,760 lbs. of the stuff--was never unloaded. Adding to the worry, K-159 sank in the waters between Russia and Norway, an area crisscrossed by commercial shipping lanes and fishing boats. Norway's Fisheries Directorate says it is waiting for reports...
Ultimately, the brief states, Harvard does not meet the high burden necessary to halt the suit prior to the discovery phase...