Word: halts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Determined to halt the downward drift of the school system, Boston area businesses have been stirred into action. In an imaginative program announced last week, nearly three dozen companies set a fund-raising goal of $5 million to help cover the tuition costs of any public high school graduate who is accepted by a college. What's more, the companies pledged to give the students priority in hiring after graduation. Says Edward Phillips, a leader of the effort and chairman of New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., which donated $1 million to the plan: "Our goal is that no qualified...
Suddenly one of the Westerners mastered his fright and whispered, "Stop, let him pass." The four came to a halt in the middle of the sidewalk. The KGB man, clearly unprepared for the maneuver, walked past them. The hound had become the hare. "Now let's catch up and embarrass him," said the correspondent. The reporters began jogging toward the KGB agent, who looked around, startled, and set off at a dead run. Pedestrians turned to stare at the sight: middle-aged men dressed in suits and overcoats pounding down a snowy sidewalk like bankers after...
...making any bank payments so that the company could go ahead with aggressive off-shore drilling projects. The brothers were especially keen to develop a tract called Green Canyon, off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. But the bankers insisted that Placid should accelerate, not halt, its debt payments...
Dozens of others, suffering from shock and injury, milled around the tarmac. Some of the more seriously wounded lay on the pavement. As ambulances arrived, security personnel frantically waved them to a halt, then loaded them with the injured and dying. When rescue workers ran out of ambulances, they pressed pickup trucks into service, and these joined the long line of vehicles heading toward local hospitals...
...state of siege, which includes a nationwide midnight-to-6-a.m. curfew and bans on union and political activity, was the second that Paz Estenssoro has declared in the past twelve months. The President took a similar step in September 1985 to halt a general strike that protested economic austerity moves...