Word: halts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driving, and turning to the wheel a panic of road-leaving, a blurry desert scene suspension-crunching horror flash of scrub and a pedestrian, pale moon-faced shock, tears by, but I throw on the breaks and our tortured trusty boat screeches dustwise front-to-back to a halt...
...Titan, the nation's most powerful unmanned space vehicle, had come to symbolize the paralyzed U.S. space program. In August 1985 a Titan exploded only a few minutes into flight. In April 1986 disaster struck again during lift-off. In the interim, the Challenger tragedy put a halt to manned space flight...
Program Trading. On Black Monday, the N.Y.S.E. ordered a halt to certain kinds of computer-aided trades in which brokers send huge waves of buy or sell orders through the markets with a few taps on a keyboard. Those emergency restrictions are still in effect, and there is considerable sentiment for making them permanent. But even as program trading was emerging as everybody's favorite scapegoat, evidence was mounting that the practice had played a smaller role in the market's collapse than suspected. According to figures released last week by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, program trading accounted for less...
...collapse mostly has hurt the pocketbooks of big-time investors. But trickle-down theory applies to economic downturns as well as upturns. If the economy grinds to a halt, all will suffer. As the President grows increasingly irrelevant and out of touch with reality, it will be up to the Congress--Republicans and Democrats alike--to pick up the pieces left by Ronald Reagan's incompetence...
...didn't matter, as usual. The first-period plague hasn't stopped Harvard yet this season. Neither has a slew of injuries or an offensive slump. It looks like nothing short of a natural disaster will halt the crusading Crimson this year...