Word: haltingly
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...West Bank because they don't believe the PA can or will enforce security; the patent impotence of those security forces in the face of the Israelis deepens Palestinian contempt for Arafat's gendarmes and emboldens the militants to simply ignore the efforts by the PA leadership to halt attacks inside Israel. More terror attacks push Israelis to demand further action; the hatred inspired by the collective punishment endured by the Palestinian population suggests the PA won't get much domestic support for a crackdown...
Both the Israelis and the Palestinians need more than President Bush's demands or Colin Powell's briefcase full of ideas to halt their barbaric war [WORLD, April 22]. They need realistic incentives. Powell blew a golden opportunity to provide them by not solidly supporting the Saudi peace proposal during his recent tour of the Middle East. This proposal offers incentives for everyone. The Palestinians would get their sovereign state. Israel would get peace with the Palestinians and Arab neighbors. The Arab states would get a reduction in the threats to their internal stability fueled by popular sympathy...
...designer fashion stores left town, and magazines ran pictures of empty shopping malls. Such recovery as Asia saw in the late '90s was almost exclusively explained by an increase in net exports, helped along by newly devalued currencies. So when the growth in world trade screeched to a halt at the end of 2000, so did the Asian recovery...
During a month-long process beginning in early June, the libraries will install the program that runs the new catalog system. They will halt the entering of books and serials into the library’s integrated electronic system—but users will still be able to access the Harvard OnLine Library Information System (HOLLIS...
...designer fashion stores left town, and magazines ran pictures of empty shopping malls. Such recovery as Asia saw in the late '90s was almost exclusively explained by an increase in net exports, helped along by newly devalued currencies. So when the growth in world trade screeched to a halt at the end of 2000, so did the Asian recovery...