Word: stops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Payne, who was a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance and has enormous, slinky appeal. You're just starting to see her as the perfect girl to cast in the remake of Flashdance (how far away can that be?) when you realize that Payne's acting talents stop with her smile. But she can sure dance...
...They like putting a lot of people in the box to stop the run,” said senior running back Cheng Ho. “They want to make us beat them with our passing game...We want to establish the running game, control the tempo of the game, control the clock...
...police treatment of a Montana-based organization, Seeds of Peace Collective, which set up mobile kitchens and delivery trucks to feed protesters for free. The ACLU alleges that police hounded the collective from one neighborhood to the next with a series of petty charges. While ACLU lawyers failed to stop police action against the group, they did successfully sue to open Pittsburgh's iconic Point State Park to groups advocating action on climate change and women's rights...
...adaptable model. The fuel-cell technology that dazzled me at the GM Tech Center is less about autos than it is about energy - energy, as hydrogen, that exists in every molecule of water. What's to stop us now from turning Detroit - its highly trained engineering talent, its skilled and unskilled workforce desperate for employment, its underutilized production facilities - into the Arsenal of the Renewable Energy Future...
...foreign observers alike. "I was disappointed to hear that the parade had been cancelled," Stephen Wordsworth, Britain's ambassador to Serbia, wrote in his blog on the embassy's website. "Those people who had wanted to demonstrate peacefully had lost. Those who were prepared to use all means to stop them had won." Some Serbian politicians were even more forceful in their condemnation: "The state has capitulated under threats of fascists," Zarko Korac, a parliament member from the Social Democratic Union party, was quoted as saying by the Serbian news website Pescanik...