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    takes the pressure off the United Nations with regard to North Korea and avoids a contentious debate about sanctions at a time when talks with North Korea had stalled.

    Kelly's departure comes at a critical time for the DHS, which is trying to build momentum for the TSA's Secure Flight program, an airline passenger-screening program that's been stalled in part by significant concerns about its ability to protect consumer privacy. It's terrible news for the DHS, ... but it's great news for GE.

    We view all these things as issues that we will continue to work with Congress to forward. We don't view this as stalled, we view this as a healthy discussion on health-care priorities and a continuing conversation with members on the Hill about these priorities.

    Negotiations always involve some lack of uncertainty regarding the eventual outcome, but we believe (the) announcement provides some measure of relief to investors frustrated by previous stalled efforts to sell the company.


    A suburban local was stalled by a blizzard one winters night, and so deep was the snow that its passengers were unable to leave the car. Next morning the hundred and fifty-odd half-frozen commuters were startled to see a manned signal tower only a few hundred yards away. The signal-station attendant had seen the stalled train the night before, but when asked why hed done nothing about it, he answered, 'Its not in my territory.'

    Yesterday's quarterly survey by the Ministry of Finance supports our view that any improvement in business sentiment stalled in the March quarter but this was largely due to a reaction to accelerated growth in the previous quarter.

    Rising business investment may have boosted demand for imported goods and stalled a further improvement in the trade deficit in January. We still are upbeat on exports, with commodity prices rising and strong global demand.

    One project I identified last year as a potential source of new revenue through a joint venture with a private firm to construct a planned community on university property stalled, but still has potential.

    With his car stalled in a busy intersection, the flustered driver hurriedly got out and lifted the hood. As he did the driver of the car behind began honking his horn. The noise kept on without letup until the driver of the stalled car suddenly walked to the car behind and said calmly, 'If youll fix my car, Ill be glad to keep blowing your horn for you.'

    The roads are definitely safer, but the progress we were making has stalled. Part of the problem is that many of the gains we've seen in making safer vehicles, getting more people to buckle up, reducing alcohol-impaired driving many of those gains have been offset by things we haven't dealt with effectively, and speed is one of those things.

    I don't know why that's occurring. It's time to take a serious look at our stalled efforts to reduce the number of dropouts. We can and must do better. West Virginia's ability to prosper is directly tied to our ability to produce a well-educated work force.

    The current investigation is stalled by certain residents who pass information to the victim's family, and later adopt a change-of-mind attitude at the time when police react to that information.

    Ultimately, the Reaction Motors turbo pump became stalled in development, so another 4-chamber Reaction Motors engine, this one fueled by liquid oxygen and diluted ethyl alcohol, was slated for installation,





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