But falter it did, degenerating in just a few fiscal quarters from vigorous, above-average growth to something like a dead halt.
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The scene, however, was found to be overly long leading one reviewer to claim that it brought the film " to a dead halt ".
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Sirens blasted, horns sounded, and the Abraham Lincoln came to a dead halt about 200 meters from the America's Cup yachts and a spectator fleet.
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The road project _ a long, southern loop around the burgeoning city _ has now come to a dead halt west of the Haskell campus.
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After the first cruiser had been hit, the following cruisers both came to a dead halt to pick up survivors, making themselves easy targets for torpedoes.
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The odds that the bags would be used seemed high, in real life, when the giant drill bit broke, bringing the rescue effort to a dead halt.
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Sirens blasted, horns sounded, and the Abraham Lincoln came to a dead halt about 200 meters ( yards ) from the America's Cup yachts and a spectator fleet.
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Hints of Jonestown-ian ominousness initially emanating from the eerie desert retreat quickly give way to ponderousness, before the film comes to a dead halt, left high and dry.
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A surreal montage that harks back to the early films of Alain Resnais ( specifically " Hiroshima, Mon Amour " ), brings the movie to a dead halt.
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Traffic often comes to a dead halt during rush hour, and the one-way commute time for millions who live on the city's outskirts has stretched to two hours or more.
