Word: haltingly
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Much of what Ben Bernanke spends his days doing oscillates between the incomprehensibly arcane and the unspeakably dull. Lately, though, the Federal Reserve chairman has a stark, even exciting task at hand. He's been imitating Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life and trying to halt a bank...
Identifying these individuals, says Carducci and Heitler, is critical so that parents, teachers and mental health professionals can intervene to halt this shyness from progressing into anger and rage against others. Carducci acknowledges that the criteria he has isolated are neither complete nor absolute, but they are a first step toward understanding the students who perpetrate violence against their own schools, and hopefully preventing such events in the future...
...political problems. Rising prices helped to foment massive civil unrest in 1989, and peasants to this day are resentful over harsh measures the central government used in the mid-1990s to rein in inflation, such as a crackdown on bank lending that brought growth to a halt in areas outside major cities. Inflation is not just a domestic concern, either. Because China supplies so much of the world's manufactured goods, higher costs on the mainland tend to show up on store shelves at Wal-Mart and other major retailers around the world. The U.S. Commerce Department says prices...
...Abbas's team also expressed frustration at what they described as Rice's failure to nail down Israeli promises to lift roadblocks inside the Palestinian territories (so far, the Israeli military has refused) and halt illegal Jewish settlements. "Rice doesn't get into specifics," complained one Palestinian negotiator. "She's like a priest in church telling us what God likes or doesn't like...
...soccer fans' passionate embrace - at least for a night - of a single Iraqi identity ought to have done more to reassure anxious U.S. policymakers than endless declarations of intent by the politicians in Baghdad. The game has a long history of helping bring a halt, although often just temporary, to civil hostilities. In 1967, a visit by Pele and his Brazilian Santos team to play exhibition matches in Nigeria brought a two-day cease-fire in that country's civil war. More recently, Ivory Coast's heroic exploits at the World Cup and African Cup of Nations have helped promote...