Word: suspended
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...Arabs. Shamir favors a form of "limited autonomy," to be negotiated with Jordan, under which the West Bank and Gaza Arabs would have control over taxes and police, for example, but not over such matters as water, security and immigration. Though Peres is less specific, he has promised to suspend the construction of new settlements immediately. He would also turn limited administrative powers over to the Arabs without waiting for Jordan to join any talks. Although Peres has hinted in the past that he might be willing to give up some West Bank land in exchange for peace...
...Solidarity's former elected leader, Lech Walesa. The mustachioed electrician who caught the world's attention during Poland's short-lived era of renewal went to morning Mass in Gdansk and then headed off to a favorite fishing hole. Walesa had told Poles that he would suspend his political activities unless they heeded the boycott. That vow prompted Jerzy Urban, the government's abrasive press spokesman, to say, "Go and ask him whether he will fulfill this pledge or if he will back out of it and make fools of you for the 100th time...
...week began, Ecuador proclaimed that it was suspending payments on part of its $6.7 billion debt. Though Ecuador's loans are small in relation to the $350 billion owed by Latin America as a whole, the announcement was disturbing because the country seemed to be playing a me-too game. Less than a week earlier, Bolivia had said it would suspend interest payments on some of its $3.4 billion debt. Some bankers feared that this defiance could keep spreading to other countries...
...Continental Illinois Bank. The bank revealed last week the stringent terms that it had been forced to accept to receive an emergency $1.5 billion loan from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The FDIC insisted that it have the power to fire Continental directors, that the bank suspend its 50?-per-share quarterly dividend payment and that the bank's officials refrain from giving themselves large severance bonuses, known as golden parachutes, in the event another financial institution takes over Continental...
...time for the funny aside, the wittily telling detail. He and the visual-effects director, Richard Edlund, also have the sense to let the special effects look just a little tacky, so they provide a comic comment on all the ghoulie-ghostie movies we have been asked to suspend disbelief for in recent years. Whoever thought of having evil's final manifestation take the form of a 100-ft. marshmallow deserves the rational mind's eternal gratitude. But praise is due to everyone connected with Ghostbusters for thinking on a grandly comic scale and delivering the goofy goods...