Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Ever since the overthrow of Military Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero by a group of junior army officers last October, the civilian-military junta has been powerless to halt the violence. In an attempt to prevent civil war, the present governing junta of two colonels and three civilians, including the respected longtime leader of the Christian Democratic Party, José Napoleon Duarte, ordered up a two-pronged plan of radical reform. To the shock and dismay of the country's small oligarchy, it called for a first-stage expropriation of 70% of the nation's most productive land from...
...tons to 134 million tons by 1988. If the industry starts to invest in more productive plant and equipment now, it will probably be able to meet most of that demand without much more than the current 15% reliance on imports. But if nothing is done by then to halt the decline of steel, the A.I.S.I. warns, domestic shipments will drop to about 85 million tons. That would leave 40% of America's steel needs to be filled by imports...
Annecy was the eleventh French casino to be raided and the seventh to be closed in the past two years. Police are seeking to halt a croupier crime wave that has robbed French gambling palaces of uncounted millions and besmirched France's longtime reputation for honest dealing at the roulette wheel. As gambling police explained it, the once honorable profession of croupier, traditionally passed on from father to son, has been taken over by organized crime. Even France's major croupier school has been infiltrated by gangsters. Croupier school graduates figured prominently among the 20 dealers who were...
...police, hopes that the jailing of the 60 croupiers now awaiting trial will have a deterrent effect on future croupier capers. If not, the centuries-old call of the croupier, "Rien ne va plus!" (No more bets!), that rings out as the spinning wheel comes toward its heart-stopping halt, may prove to be the death knell of the French casino industry...
...cost $6,000 and wheat is $5 million a bushel. Soon violent rioting breaks out, and thousands die. In both history and fiction, the first step in any government's cure for hyperinflation is to convince the people that it is serious about taking the necessary steps to halt the price explosion...