Word: halt
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Otto Eckstein argued that reducing outlays by the $30 billion to $50 billion that Reagan's advisers are recommending for fiscal 1981 would require a complete halt to any growth in nondefense spending. Since 1947, those politically popular expenditures-which include Social Security, aid to education, and employment training-have increased at an average rate of 5.3% annually. Said Eckstein: "The question is, Can Reagan effectuate this revolution...
...sits forward on the couch and emphasizes his hopes for Deng once again. The new leadership has "set the forces in motion, and they will be difficult to halt," he believes. "That's the only chance," he concludes, shifting restlessly, thinking about how his own fate is so delicately tied to his nation's. "The system is changing for the better--one can only hope it will continue...
...eyes of one competitor, Nolo's books are too detailed. "Most of what is available today is designed for either fourth-graders or professionals," says Paul Hasse, 26, a Rhodes Scholar and the founder of Help Abolish Legal Tyranny (HALT) in Washington, B.C. HALT'S guides are aimed at readers between those extremes. In contrast to Nolo, only one member of HALT'S nine-member staff is a lawyer. Supported by $15-a-year dues from 30,000 members, the two-year-old group devotes considerable time to lobbying for legal reforms and lambasting the profession...
Area merchants said yesterday they feared the service shutdown would badly damage Christmas sales. All major Boston department stores confirmed last night that they would be open even if the service halt continued. "We can't afford not to be," an official of the Jordan Marsh department store said...
...enormous sink." The last is the scene of an apparent tragedy. There, next to the deadly garbage disposal, Pat's husband (Charles Grodin) learns, a tiny tennis shoe has been found-all that is left of his little woman. Has Kramer's life come to a grinding halt? To avoid giving away the ending, let it be said only that Pat has gone on to bigger things...