• An FCC approval for a new adapter, the Qube, suggests that reticence is coming to a quick halt -- and in an uncommon way.

    ENGADGET: blogger-avatar

  • One day after the freebies were announced at Marvel's SXSW panel in Austin, Texas, it was put to a halt -- at least temporarily -- by Comixology.

    CNN: Free digital comics offer 'paused' after servers crash

  • If you're tired of seeing those poor excuses for universal docks that connect via USB 2.0 -- most of which can't even export video without bringing your machine to a grinding halt -- you'll be elated to know that Belkin has upped the ante on the lackluster alternatives with its Notebook Expansion Dock.

    ENGADGET: Belkin unveils ExpressCard Notebook Expansion Dock

  • Mr Mubarak is currently visiting Europe as part of Arab government efforts to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence.

    BBC: Israeli raid 'an act of sabotage'

  • Barack Obama has given up trying to force Mr Netanyahu to halt settlement-building in the West Bank.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Hillary Clinton held a conference call with Mr. Cox asking him to halt short-selling in the large financial companies.

    WSJ: McCain Says Cox Should Be Fired As SEC Chief Amid 'Casino' Markets

  • The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has promised trading halts, lawsuits and other probes in its efforts to curb manipulation in the penny stock market--and halt a tsunami of e-mails touting these questionable securities.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Spaniards generally hold the king in high regard for his service to the nation and his defense of democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 -- especially the king's decisive stand to halt a right-wing military coup in 1981.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • On Friday, General Electric 's WMC Mortgage, the fifth-largest subprime lender, said it was putting a halt to no-down-payment loans, or loans to borrowers with credit scores below 600.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • On Friday, General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) WMC Mortgage, the fifth-largest subprime lender, said it was putting a halt to no-down-payment loans, or loans to borrowers with credit scores below 600.

    FORBES: Big Banks May Be Chum

  • On Sept. 24, John Baron, a professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, called Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) to say a safety committee he headed had decided to halt a three-year study testing the arthritis treatment Vioxx as a cancer preventative.

    FORBES: Behind Merck's Fall

  • Come to find out, it also goes from 30 to 0 in a nausea-filled second when ground to a halt of twisted carbon-fiber beneath a Mercedes.

    ENGADGET: Tesla #6 crash disturbs the sound of silence

  • The rise of far-right parties in Austria, Flanders, France and elsewhere reflects not so much a lurch to a xenophobic nationalism as an in-your-face protest to establishment politicians to halt their roughshod pro-European methods.

    FORBES: Fact And Comment

  • Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon -- who has repeatedly called for a halt in the fighting -- headed to Jerusalem on Thursday after meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the first of several days of talks around the region.

    CNN: Arab nations split over brokering Gaza truce

  • Governor Paterson may also halt another movement--the use of eminent domain in aiding private developers.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Unfortunately, Obamacare is trying to halt this cost-control effort by imposing crippling restrictions on high-deductible plans.

    FORBES: Another Broken Obama Promise: The Healthcare Cost Monster Emerges

  • Obama's budget director made a vow Sunday that the president will bring a halt to pork-laden bills.

    CNN: Obama calls for overhaul of earmarks

  • Undeterred, Hollywood is waging a courtroom assault: The MPAA sued Morpheus' and Kazaa's owners in October to halt their file-swapping.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And now that the worst of the Japanese economic crisis seems to be past, it should also halt its credit-guarantee programme.

    ECONOMIST: Will Japan never learn?

  • And having upset the Obama administration by rejecting its demand for a complete halt to settlement-building, he later announced a unilateral, partial, ten-month suspension.

    ECONOMIST: Israel and Iran

  • It's soon advertised as a way to halt the Spanish-influenza epidemic.

    CNN: Cleaning through the ages

  • Jacob Turner (1-0) pitched seven scoreless innings in his season debut and Marcell Ozuna had three hits to help the Marlins halt a nine-game losing streak.

    WSJ: Marcum gets little help, Mets' winning streak ends

  • They got the usual stellar game from linebacker Manti Te'o, who made his seventh interception of the season to halt a third-quarter USC drive and conclude a persuasive argument for the Heisman Trophy.

    WSJ: Notre Dame Beats USC for BCS Berth: Two Yards and a World of Difference

  • In Eugene, Deanna Stutzman was one of thousands of workers with jobs tied to wood products who were idled nationally in 2009, as the most severe recession in decades drove the housing market to a near-halt.

    WSJ: Logging Towns Are on a Roll

  • Smirnoff discovered their glorious past and re-energized their marketing team. (Smirnoff invented purified vodka in the old country and went on to introduce vodka to the U.S.A.: rumor has it they invented the martini.) Maxwell House coffee did the same to halt a decade-long sales decline.

    FORBES: New JCP Company Goes Back To Origins To Find Its Future

  • The serious business was conducted out of sight, and involved a series of meetings on a new diplomatic effort to persuade the Iranians to halt their uranium-enrichment program. (Iran argues that its enrichment program is for civilian purposes and is legal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.) Secretary of State Rice had been involved with developing a new package of incentives.

    NEWYORKER: Preparing the Battlefield

  • The new measures - which will include a halt to scrap being sold for cash - come ahead of a bill tabled by Richard Ottaway MP which is making its way through parliament.

    BBC: Stolen plaque broken into pieces

  • Diamyd Medical of Sweden is pursuing a vaccine aiming to halt destruction of insulin-producing cells.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Millennium Summit, Putin said the time had come for the world to halt discussion of space-based defense systems.

    CNN: US - Clinton, Putin discuss Balkans, arms control, missile defense

  • Following the accident, the authorities called a temporary halt to new high-speed rail projects and placed speed restrictions on trains.

    BBC: China bullet train crash 'caused by design flaws'

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