1.   All this has helped to halt the advance of new tire companies.

2.   At battlefield positions around the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka Thursday, Croatian units halted their advance and retreated back into Croatia.

3.   Croatian units halted their advance across the international border from the north and retreated back into Croatia from positions around the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka on Thursday.

4.   Last year, the yen strengthened enough to make the Bank of Japan sell it in late February to halt the advance.

5.   On Tuesday, Zedillo ordered the army to halt its advance and offered the rebels amnesty and negotiations if they would give up the fight.

6.   The Soviet army halted its advance to let Germans and Poles exhaust themselves, and Fischer hurried southward to flee the city.

7.   UES shares may soon halt their advance as the government takes its first steps toward overhauling the company, said traders.

8.   A Russian general halted his advance in Chechnya, while the president of the breakaway republic ordered his fighters to pull back.

9.   Air strikes failed to halt the advance, and the threat of more prompted the Serbs to detain and harass U.N. peacekeepers.

10.   Aircraft dropped water on the parched scrub land and forest, but it failed to halt the advance of the flames.