And a former Reid aide, Gregory B. Jackzo, maneuvered to stop the licensing process while serving as the commission's chairman.
For Zvonareva to have any chance Saturday, she must, if not stop the most feared serve in tennis, at least slow it.
At the time, Lewis wrote letters to Tylenol demanding $1 million to stop the killings; he served a 13-year sentence for extortion.
Because of mounting health department fines and a pending lawsuit from neighbors, the owners of Veronica People's Club, a gay bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, told the staff that the bar would stop serving alcohol after 8 p.m.
In the case of Nobu, after numerous exchanges with Greenpeace, the sushi restaurant's owners remained unpersuaded of the need to stop serving the fish.
WWF said it would step up calls for restaurants, retailers, chefs and consumers around the world to stop selling, serving, buying and eating the endangered fish.
Players quiver on the field with potential crushed tibias and ruptured spleens, which serve to stop the clock.
"Let the people go to every ministry that remains to make civil servants stop serving the Thaksin regime," the Associated Press news agency quoted him as saying.
Mr. Love has faced the most dramatic version of a dilemma many of his colleagues, especially the younger staff members in the White House, share: When do you stop serving the president and begin to chart your own way?
Earlier this week, the Peninsula hotel – one of the most prestigious in Hong Kong – said it would stop serving the dish from January.
