Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ignoring a Labor Department plea for a seven-day delay, four shopcraft unions culminated more than a year of stop-and-go negotiations by striking the sprawling Union Pacific Railroad. Almost immediately, the railroads retaliated. The Penn Central, which daily serves nearly 140,000 commuters, announced that it would halt all its operations. The rest of the 128 lines involved in the dispute threatened to follow suit, and the U.S. suddenly faced the first nationwide railroad lockout in its history...
...Billion Lawsuit. Last week the California state assembly voted unanimously to request the Federal Government to halt all drilling in the channel. The state senate is expected to follow suit. Maine's U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie has also introduced a bill in Congress that would permit the Federal Government to buy back the channel oil leases. Other pending bills would transfer the offshore leases to federal oil reserves elsewhere. Skeptics question whether the Government would give up such a rich source of revenue: the oil companies have already paid $603 million for drilling rights off Santa Barbara...
Several suits to halt further drilling have been filed. In addition, residents have brought a class-action suit that seeks $1.3 billion in damages. So far, the only injunction granted has given the oil companies immunity against state prosecution. Ignoring that order, Santa Barbara District Attorney David Minier recently filed criminal charges against the companies for 343 violations of a law prohibiting pollution of state waters...
...evidence indicates that letting pollution continue would be more expensive than spending the money needed to curb it. To save the U.S. from becoming a malodorous wasteland, experts agree, will cost nearly $100 billion in the next five years. About $30 billion of that will be required merely to halt pollution of the nation's waterways. The probable cost of cleaning up the air that Americans breathe is an astronomical $60 billion over a five-year period...
With a certain note of cheer that the Administration's deflationary policy is finally working, Commerce Department officials reported last week that the economy's growth ground to a halt in the last three months of 1969. The gross national product increased by $10.3 billion in that period but, after price increases were taken into account, there was no "real" growth. Other signs of slowdown were plentiful. In December, industrial production declined for the fifth straight month, and new housing starts dropped slightly to an annual rate of 1,245,000, which was the year's lowest...