Word: halt
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Graham's action was the symbolic culmination of two years of escalating activism at Harvard. Just the month before, the day-to-day workings of the University had ground to a halt when students struck to protest academia's complicity in the Vietnam...
...annual rate of just 1.3% in the first quarter, down from a previously estimated 2.1%. Coming on top of a dreary 1.1% growth rate in the last quarter of 1989, the revision indicated that the 7 1/2-year-long U.S. expansion could be in deepening danger of groaning to a halt...
...boys with no fathers at home, one in kindergarten and one in first grade. The results were encouraging. Daily attendance rates increased 6%, test scores jumped 6% to 9%, and there was a noticeable decrease in hostility. But after only a year, the U.S. Education Department brought an abrupt halt to the experiment because it violated civil rights laws...
...share Solzhenitsyn's antipathy toward progress. If mankind is the healthy organism I believe it to be, then progress, science and the constructive application of intelligence will enable us to cope with the dangers facing us. Having set out on the path of progress several millenniums ago, mankind cannot halt now -- nor should...
...effort to pressure President Derek C. Bok and University officials into rethinking their investment policy, students at the School of Public Health have launched a campaign of radio spots calling on Harvard to halt all investment in the tobacco industry...