Word: haltingly
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...when Clinton proposed to ban future road construction on 43 million acres of national forests, the locals took it as a declaration of war. For the past several years, rural groups have managed to halt virtually all environmental initiatives, including a master plan for the Ozarks devised by the Missouri Department of Conservation. The situation became so tense that workers were ordered not to wear uniforms; one was found gagged, with a Sierra Club video tape in her mouth. Says Ray Cunio, of Citizens for Private Property Rights: "No one is talking black helicopters or U.N. troops anymore. What...
...conceding Lieberman's strength, the Bush campaign undercut the message it had been sending for the past several weeks: that Gore is an unprincipled Clinton clone whose Veep pick will be just another example of low-road behavior. Bush's team said he wouldn't be calling a halt to his talk of "restoring honor and integrity" to the White House, but both his advisers and Republicans in Washington are worried that they have been robbed of one of their central themes. They concede that choosing Lieberman is the smartest thing Gore has done in this campaign, and what happened...
...week later, Russian officials revealed that they have a letter they say Kim gave Putin during his July 19 visit, which reaffirms Pyongyang's offer to halt its intercontinental ballistic missile program. That pricked up ears in the State Department, which is now probing North Korean diplomatic contacts to find out just what the "Dear Leader" has in mind...
...Yasser, the party's over. President Clinton turned on the lights Friday in a bid to halt Chairman Arafat's reveling in resurgent support following his refusal during the Camp David talks to back down on Jerusalem. After all, the Palestinian leader now has to come up with an alternative, and President Clinton issued a sharp warning Friday against Arafat's carrying out his vow to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state. "If it happens, there will inevitably be consequences not just here but throughout the world," Mr. Clinton told an Israeli interviewer. "I mean that things will happen." Indeed, Washington...
...Isay, spokesman for DoubleClick, the largest Internet advertising network and a major force in the Network Advertising Initiative, which penned the agreement. In other words, whew. Because without some consumer information these firms can dangle in front of companies, the economy of the Internet pretty much grinds to a halt - and the DoubleClicks are the first...