1.   Already, Harrington has ordered a halt to spending for new equipment.

2.   An aide to Rumsfeld distributed a memo on Monday saying the secretary had ordered a halt in U.S. military contacts with China.

3.   A New York appeals court judge last night ordered a halt to the sale to management of penmaker Sheaffer Inc., which Bic has made a bid to acquire.

4.   A writ of supersedeas orders a halt to legal proceedings that would otherwise proceed.

5.   After the accident, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered a halt to the practice of letting civilians take the controls of military equipment.

6.   Aid officials in Pyongyang are worried by several misleading reports which claimed that the North Koreans had ordered a halt to foreign aid.

7.   But Microsoft ordered a halt to the practice.

8.   But the Israeli supreme court ordered a halt to the demolition until it could hear an appeal from the Palestinian homeowners.

9.   Forks, a logging town on the Olympic Peninsula, saw jobs disappear when courts ordered a halt to almost all timber cutting on federal lands in the Northwest.

10.   In one of his first officials acts on Monday, Bush ordered a halt to federal payments to international organizations that support abortions or abortion counseling overseas.