Word: halts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the story, the writers, researchers and editors directly responsible for the cover story got a good deal of personal feeling for it. Michael Demarest, THE NATION editor, was on his way home on the train to Croton-on-Hudson when power failed and the train ground to a halt about a mile north of Yonkers. He walked the mile, managed to get a cab home, and watched his children toasting marshmallows in the fireplace and 13-year-old Michelle, after the manner of another century, doing her homework by firelight. Writer Ron Kriss surveyed the situation-and spent...
...sources. At 5:18, the 300,000-kw. influx reversed; in seconds, 1.5 million kw. were surging northward, draining the city at its moment of peak demand. Before Nellis could halt the outflow by cutting Con Ed off from CANUSE, lights began flickering all over the city until only a scintilla of orange glowed from each bulb. For an instant, the lights surged on again; and then, like a theater at curtain time, New York sank into darkness...
...bill that would halt the North Harvard urban renewal project of the Boston Redevelopment Authority yesterday passed the Massachusetts State Senate by a voice vote...
Since the BRA tore down 14 houses in August, it has evicted no more residents. The Boston City Council has voted to ask the BRA to halt further evictions until the legislature acts on the pending bill...
...halt such "conspiratorial" competition, the slum lawyers have filed a federal antitrust suit seeking injunctions and $450,000 in treble damages. The first suit of its kind demands a hard look at possible inequities. But in the long run, a decision that supports the. neighborhood service is likely to help the poor become more prosperous-and boost business for all U.S. lawyers...