The 2002 professional baseball season could come to a grinding halt Friday morning on account of greed.
But all that global knowledge sharing could come to a grinding halt if the Stop Online Piracy Act goes forward.
Why was this breathtaking march to prosperity brought to a grinding halt by the financial crisis that hit Asia in 1997?
Scaling was destined to end, and once it did, the economic force behind the world of semiconductors would come to a grinding halt.
Most economists expect GDP growth to fall only to 8-9% next year (from 10.1% in the second quarter of this year and 12.6% a year earlier) hardly a grinding halt.
It was a high point in his career, the actor says, but after months of frenetic activity in the wake of the film's success, everything suddenly came to a grinding halt.
There is, of course, a risk that a rise in rates might instantly trigger a sharp fall on Wall Street, bringing America's economy to a grinding halt and thus harming the world too.
By the time New Year's Eve rolls around, companies will have spent billions to correct a technically trivial problem that too few people took seriously - until it threatened to bring our lives and corporations to a grinding halt.
But the costs hit home when ecosystem degradation translates into lost lives or illness, when scarcities bring supply chains to a grinding halt, when homes are destroyed or jobs lost, or when preventable damage from natural disasters overwhelms the budgets of insurers and governments.
But Matthew Broderick, as her husband, a Caspar Milquetoast with a flap of hair falling over his forehead, never seems to get into the movie at all, and, somewhere in the middle, the rusty gothic-horror mechanics underneath the comedy bring everything to a grinding halt.
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"One of the world's biggest economies should not be grinding to a halt, " he said.
He said the UK was "grinding to a halt" as travel costs continued to rise.
Republicans and Democrats wholeheartedly believe that progress in medical innovation is grinding to a halt.
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Finally, a point is reached where the slightest nudge can bring the whole system grinding to a halt.
Reddit and Wikipedia went dark for one day in January and brought SOPA grinding to a halt.
The power failure caused havoc, with whole cities grinding to a halt and transport and other services badly hit.
Particle physics, therefore, risks grinding to a halt for purely pragmatic reasons.
If you did it wrong, one program or server could still become become a bottleneck and bring the whole site grinding to a halt.
In 1995, with the port city of Karachi rapidly descending into anarchy and business grinding to a halt, Bhutto sent in paramilitary police units to quell the fighting.
Two more important worries hanging over the markets have been that the US will lose its AAA rating and that America's recovery might be grinding to a halt.
The deal market is grinding to a halt after a sustained boom that reached a climax in the spring with six of the largest buyouts ever, including Blackstone's deal for Equity Office Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' deals for TXU and First Data, among others.
But those most inconvenienced were aboard a train that left New York early Friday morning ended up grinding to a halt at 11 p.m. that night in Prince, West Virginia, after trees blocked tracks both in front of and behind it, Amtrak spokesman Steve Kulm said.
That money has oiled the gears of a banking machine that was grinding to a disastrous halt, lifting worries that euro-zone banks would lose access to funding as they tried in vain to raise money from unwilling investors.
The central bank said conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low interest rates until mid-2013, but investors may have ignored the fact that the rationale behind the free money policy is a domestic economy that is at renewed risk of grinding back to a halt.
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They have, slowing the Iranian nuclear program and virtually grinding the Iranian economy to a halt in 2011.
Once dedicated to supporting far right candidates and making mischief for the purpose of grinding the wheels of centrist government to a halt by distracting the administration with scandal after scandal, they now have taken on a far more virulent form.
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