Word: halts
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...little worried. I became even more worried by his statement that he cares about the reasons why faculty members do not attend meetings, “but I think we have to be very careful to not allow the business of the FAS...to be ground to a halt because of whatever it is that makes people not come...
...respectable venue.” The room is characteristically half-full of the same thirty-somethings and sixteen-year-olds, clutching Stella Artois in their sweaty, underage hands. You can meet the headlining band at the merchandise table while the openers screech their way to an agonizing and glorious halt. The acts are not always well known, but they’re often surprisingly good. This underground scene seems an appropriate sanctuary for the last dying breaths of rock-n-roll creativity...
...judgment, handed down by Lord Justice Moses and Justice Sullivan, censured Robert Wardle, director of the SFO, for allowing threats made by Saudi officials to scupper the probe into allegations of bribery. The Blair government called a halt to that investigation in December 2006, a decision it insisted was made purely in the interest of national security. The court was scathingly unconvinced. "No one, whether within this country or outside, is entitled to interfere with the course of our justice," the judges ruled. "It is the failure of Government and [Wardle] to bear that essential principle in mind that justifies...
...alleged payment of bribes by BAE in connection with its $60 billion "Al-Yamamah" arms deal agreed with Saudi Arabia in the mid-'80s. According to the High Court judgment, BAE sought in late 2005 to persuade Lord Goldsmith, then Britain's Attorney General, to call a halt to the inquiry, claiming it would sour relations between the U.K. and Saudi Arabia, and endanger future lucrative arms deals...
Americans have heard the bad news about the housing market from the press, their neighbors and their real estate agents. Now they're hearing it from former Bachelor Bob Guiney. "The real estate market has come screeching to a halt!" he cries, over the sound of squealing tires, at the beginning of TLC's Date My House. On the new show, anxious sellers stage overnight "dates," in which potential buyers spend the night at the house, the better to "seduce" them into making a "long-term commitment." (The sellers themselves are not thrown in as part of the date package...