Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They deserved to win," Harvard coach Billy Cleary said. "Right from the beginning they beat us to the puck and didn't stop all night long...
...series of dramatic but carefully limited moves, the President fought back with economic reprisals. He ordered a stop to all purchases of Iranian oil, 700,000 bbl. per day, or 4% of U.S. consumption; he froze all Iranian government banking assets in the U.S. The Administration has not officially interrupted the flow of the nearly $500 million worth of food the U.S. ships to Iran annually. But the International Longshoremen's Association instructed all its members not to load any vessels bound for Iran, and the giant American Farm Bureau Federation offered to support a total boycott on food exports...
...behind the U.S. initiative, some private bankers were troubled that banking itself had become more deeply enmeshed in petropolitics. Remarked a top international financial adviser in London: "We have an awful lot of people worrying that if the Americans can do this today to Iranian money, what is to stop them from doing it with my money tomorrow...
...Manchester, while some 2,000 more listened from smaller adjoining rooms. He drew standing applause when he declared, "We must shelve SALT II." While refraining from suggesting what Carter ought to do about the hostage crisis in Iran, he stirred another ovation by proclaiming, "It is tune to stop worrying whether someone likes us and decide we are going to be respected in the world. . . to the degree that no dictator would ever again seize our embassy and take our people...
...poisonous chemicals that have been seeping out of more than 40,000 industrial dumpsites across the nation And, although many of the exact sites and chemicals have already been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in the vast majority of cases the federal agency has done nothing to stop the pollution. Instead, reports one EPA official, "There's been a cover...