11.   Forty percent of major carriers halted operations the first day.

12.   He added late Wednesday that UPS was halting air operations for a second night, but the company has not, like its competitor, added trucks.

13.   High winds could force the refinery to slow or halt its operations, lowering available supply.

14.   If the motive was to halt the operations at the heart of the capitalist system of financial trading, the attack was a success.

15.   In addition, floods forced the company to halt operations at a smelter in Queensland state this week.

16.   Loss of the tape recorder would not halt these operations but would prevent the spacecraft from storing pictures and data during close approaches.

17.   Mazda Motor Corp. may halt operations for a few days at two of its passenger-car plants next month because of sluggish sales.

18.   Midway Airlines announced on Thursday that it would halt operations, and larger airlines announced their cutbacks.

19.   News that Nissan Mutual Life Insurance Co. will halt its operations undermined the yen, traders said.

20.   On Friday, the Independent Television Commission, which regulates broadcasters based in Britain, ordered the Kurdish station, Med-TV, to halt operations permanently.