Word: halting
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...take over the post of deputy inspector general - a job that, among other things, would have required Smith to handle charges of sexual misconduct within the ranks. Kennedy's accusations, which were substantiated by a recently completed Army investigation, brought Smith's career to a screeching and very public halt; his presumed ascent to the inspector general's office was put on hold while the Army looked into the charges, and another officer took over the position temporarily. That officer is due to retire soon, and the post will be awarded to a third candidate, Major General Joseph Inge...
...Harvard's social scene. It was a warm night last spring, well past midnight, and I was returning home from a gathering in a friend's room. Mt. Auburn street was nearly vacant, except for a shiny red sports car that cruised past me and pulled to a halt curbside. Out of the car emerged two well-dressed, well-coifed Harvard students--and a strung-out prostitute. As I stood entranced, my two classmates helped the wobbly woman out of the backseat and led her to the door of one of Cambridge's venerable private clubs. Laughing raucously, the unlikely...
Operation Allied Force was a campaign extending over 78 days and involving more than 900 aircraft, hundreds of cruise missiles, four aircraft carriers and more than a dozen other ships and submarines. Their mission was to use air power to halt or diminish a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing being carried out by more than 50,000 Serb military, police and paramilitary against 1 1/2 million virtually defenseless ethnic Albanians. More than 250 fixed targets were attacked, including airfields, communications facilities, fuel depots, and military and police headquarters. The more than 1,000 strikes conducted against enemy forces in Kosovo...
...clearer idea of just how high the Fed plans to go at its June meeting, there may be a silver lining for investors in Greenspan's desire to get the job done quickly. "The need to ensure a smooth landing rather than bring the economy crashing to a halt means that the Fed will want to make any increase in June their last for the year," says Baumohl. "It wouldn?t be at all surprising if, once it absorbed that increase, the market shows a healthy rebound...
...region after the civil rights campaigner angered leaders in West Africa in reported comments that appeared to equate Sierra Leone?s murderous rebels with Nelson Mandela?s African National Congress. But even without Jesse Jackson, negotiations inevitably involve give and take, and the rebels' call for a halt to any U.N. or government counteroffensive reflects their primary concern to maintain control of Sierra Leone's diamond fields to the south and east. Indeed, it was U.N. attempts to disarm the RUF in those areas, in line with last year's peace deal, that sparked the latest outbreak of violence. Most...