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Whether that sign stilled his heart with calming thoughts of home (where the Forward was read in Yiddish by his house-painter father and dressmaker mother) or whether it momentarily halted the reach of his escaping imagination is not explained.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Saddam announced that Iraq would allow U.N. weapons inspectors to resume their work in Iraq, which Saddam had previously halted.
But where ER and FDR are concerned, I think the burden's on a conservative to explain whether and why the New Deal should have halted short of where it did.
The vote "halted the momentum" toward nuclear arms control and "further weakened the already shaky standing of the United States as a global moral leader," the New York Times concluded in a front-page analysis the day after Clinton's news conference.
President Clinton halted a strike by American Airlines pilots . Using the rarely invoked Railway Labor Act of 1926, he forced the pilots to postpone the strike for two months while federal mediators try to resolve the dispute.