Word: halts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which calls for a non-aggression agreement and a commitment to democracy among the nations of Central America, have been going on since January 1983. The U.S. has grave reservations about the treaty as it stands. Among other flaws, say U.S. diplomats, the document would require the U.S. to halt military aid to El Salvador immediately, without stopping Soviet and Cuban assistance to Nicaragua. The Contadora nations, on the other hand, evidently feel that the U.S. is stalling. "We cannot clearly understand the opposition of the U.S. to the Contadora draft treaty," Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor told TIME...
...early 1970s, the Innuit and the Cree Indians, who also dwell in the area, brought suit in Canadian courts to halt construction of the $15 billion James Bay hydroelectric-power project, charging that it would result in damage to their lands. In 1973 the Quebec Superior Court ruled in the plaintiffs' favor. But after a one-week suspension, work on the immense undertaking was resumed when the Quebec Court of Appeal reversed the earlier ruling...
...originally predicted. That spurt helped reduce the deficit to an estimated $174.3 billion in fiscal 1984, from a record $195.4 billion in 1983. Most economists, though, fear that deficit spending has fueled a false prosperity that will soon fade. Already, progress against unemployment shows signs of coming to a halt. The civilian jobless rate declined slightly in September, from 7.5% to 7.4%, but that was still higher than the 7.1% recorded in June...
Another issue of concern at last week's IMF-World Bank meeting was the continued rise in value of the U.S. dollar. The West German Bundesbank again intervened in world money markets to halt the volatile increase of the dollar against the mark; following the West German action the dollar declined slightly. - By John S. DeMott...
...themselves, though, is the degree to which Wednesday's crowd was willing to condone--and actually seemed to enjoy--the crudity and adolescent jeering. Rally organizers, for example, encouraged supporters to come by telling them that they would need people to counter hecklers. Similarly, instead of calling for a halt to contention and vulgarity, religious leaders like Jerry Falwell actually seem to be inciting such provocation...