Word: haltingly
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SIERRA MIST PepsiCo last year called a halt to its distribution deal with 7Up and launched this challenger to 7Up and Sprite. It has a traditional lemon-lime soda taste but is slightly sweeter than the competitors. --L.McL...
...sensitivities, as it has done in the past, but the symbolism of the attempt still makes many uneasy. "One can't help remembering that in the 1930s [restricting kosher slaughter] was one of Hitler's first laws, when he wanted to bring the Jewish way of life to a halt," says Michael Kester, head of the National Council of Shechita Boards, which oversees Jewish ritual slaughter...
...Human Rights said it had received reports of arbitrary detentions, assault and torture. While calls for the biggest demonstrations "since independence" failed to spark - soldiers wearing no to mass action T shirts took up positions on Harare's street corners just to make sure - business ground to a halt. Faced with its worst economic meltdown since independence, the government printed "emergency" money. The clampdown seemed to be working; opposition leaders said further protests would force Mugabe "to the negotiating table" rather than oust him. - By Simon Robinson See Also: Zimbabwe in TIME Terror Suspects Held FRANCE AND BELGIUM Police said...
...Chirac, two years ago at the violence-marred G-8 meeting in Genoa, who was among the most forceful instigators of the Global Fund to Fight aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. For months he has been saying that a key objective of the Evian summit would be "to halt the spread of the major pandemics and especially of aids." Then along came George W. Bush to upstage Chirac. Less than a week before his trip to Evian, the American President signed a bill authorizing $15 billion over five years to combat aids in 12 African and two Caribbean countries...
...Palestinian cause by agreeing at Aqaba to end the intifadah without securing Palestinian demands. The Hamas announcement leaves Abbas - and the "roadmap" plan - in a crisis, because he'd been counting on a cease-fire agreement with the militants as the means of delivering on his undertaking to halt terror attacks on Israelis. Without such an agreement, his only alternative would be to declare war on those organizations - an option he has strenuously emphasized that he plans to avoid, and one for which he may lack the necessary political support and security muscle...