Word: halting
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...Task Force released a report that recommended against Internet voting from home because of security risks. We've witnessed the way that recent cyberattacks that all but crippled major websites; a similar assault on an official election website could easily bring the gears of reelection grinding to a chaotic halt. Do the benefits of increased enfranchisement really outweigh potential computer glitches that could call the validity of the entire process to question? Are we willing to turn voting over to a medium whose security is so infamously simple to circumvent that we would have to worry about hackers tampering with...
...fretting if we can't remember the name of someone we just met--or know well--getting upset when we can't recall where we put our keys or left the car in the parking lot or whether we mailed the phone bill. We walk into a room and halt in midstride, the purpose forgotten. These annoying things happen to most of us eventually, and for a simple reason. Just as the body changes over time, so does the brain. "On any intelligence or memory test," says University of Chicago gerontologist Michael Roizen, "we lose, on average...
...fraud. "We were hearing the same thing from every direction," a senior law-enforcement source told TIME. "There was worry that the whole insurance business of the U.K. could collapse." In Washington the Securities and Exchange Commission launched two separate investigations of Lloyd's in 1991, only to halt both a year later in what former chairman Richard Breeden describes as deference to British court actions...
...with the media. The other reason Beets is attracting so much attention is that her case presents a perfect opportunity for Governor Bush's opposition to publicly question his "compassionate conservatism." Bush was unmoved by pleas for Beets's life; when asked Thursday whether he had any plans to halt the execution, he brushed off any lingering doubts and expressed boundless confidence in the Texas legal system. "I will ask myself one question," he said. "Is she guilty of the crime...
...perhaps recent developments will halt this fever for amoral marriages. According to the New York Times, last week's groom, Rick Rockwell, was the subject of a 1991 temporary restraining order after a woman filed a petition saying Mr. Rockwell had threatened her life after she broke off her engagement...