Word: halts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light of a State Superior Court decision, on February 26, upholding Cambridge's newly enacted halt on all "toxic and hazardous substances" research, the fact that Cambridge is the third most densely populated city in the nation clinches the argument against ADL's nerve gas testing However, the contradiction of, in effect, seeking out danger in the name of safety, only brings into focus a national issue of which Cambridge is an extreme case...
...come up for a series of funding votes in the next few weeks. Using his favorite name for the missile, the President pleaded with one group: "Let us not unilaterally weaken our position as we begin the talks. The worst signal we could send the Soviets would be to halt the production of the MX Peacekeeper program." Amplifying on that theme in his regular Saturday radio message, Reagan said such a signal would tell the Soviets that "they can gain more through propaganda and stonewalling than through serious negotiations...
...Pope to worship at Anglicanism's Canterbury Cathedral, the first to preach in a Lutheran church, and the first in a millennium to attend the Eucharist in Istanbul alongside Orthodoxy's Ecumenical Patriarch. But despite these gestures of friendship, substantive progress toward Christian unity has nearly come to a halt during John Paul II's reign. Last week a front-page editorial in the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, seemed to signal that there is no prospect of structural reunion of the churches so long as this Pope's views prevail...
Then currency traders were taken aback by bulletins concerning the testimony of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker before a congressional committee. Volcker said that Western central banks had not acted "forcefully enough" to halt the dollar's ascent. Some traders took that to be a call for stepped-up Government intervention...
Women could not very well enter the professions or seck sckilled employment without a good education. According to some observers in the early part of the 19th century the already abysmally low standard of education of girs schools was continuing to decline It took Entity Davies to halt this slide She was in spired to take action when she found her own education wanting and was bored with the life she was expected to lead when she came of age Davies founded the Gorton School and began the reform of girls' education Davies insisted on educating her students in exactly...