Word: halts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secretary of State George P. Shultz asked the Chinese on a trip to Beijing in March to halt weapons shipments to Iran. He reiterated the appeal to a visiting Chinese military delegation here last week...
...good, then why is there so much nervousness in the air? Why is the dread word recession turning up in more and more conversations? The inescapable fact is that the economy is facing dangerous potholes ahead that could badly jolt the expansion or even bring it to a jarring halt. The dollar has plunged to disturbing lows, and interest rates have recently spiked upward. Inflation may be roaring back: last week the Government reported that in April wholesale prices skyrocketed at an annual rate of 8.9%, the worst monthly performance since October 1985. For the same period, industrial production fell...
Certainly the spate of post-Watergate reform legislation has been undermined by unintended consequences. Campaign-spending laws spawned a proliferation of political-action committees. Strictures against lobbying by former Government officials have failed to halt revolving-door Reaganism. The very act of drawing statutory limits almost seems to guarantee that most behavior will cluster just this side of legality. As Education Secretary William Bennett puts it, "What I worry about is a legislator who says we have an ethics crisis, let's do something about...
...Europe's peacekeeper over the past 40 years. Ryzhkov replied with a detailed discussion of Soviet arms-reduction aims and complained about France's nuclear policy. "Unfortunately," he declared, "at present we do not see France among those who intervene against nuclear deterrence or those who wish to halt the roulette of military peril in Europe...
...senior cleric from Qum, as the formal successor, Khomeini has yet to approve the recommendation. Western diplomats say Rafsanjani has the political ability to outmaneuver Montazeri. Regardless of who the next Iranian leader will be, it is not expected that he will change Khomeini's policies or halt the war. One Iranian shrugged and recalled an old saying: "The first hundred years are the hardest...