Cease And Desist. DEFINITION of 'Cease And Desist'. Cease and desist is an order given by a government administrative agency or the courts to stop any suspicious or illegal activities. Falling under the Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978, a cease and desist order places an injunction on a company or person, prohibiting the activities that are deemed suspect.
Rosey Grier is 83 years old. To be more precise (and nerdy), the current age as of right now is 30299 days or (even more geeky) 727176 hours. That's a lot of hours!
Now, The New York Times reports the woman who inspired the Rosie the Riveter poster, a California waitress named Naomi Parker Fraley, has died. Fraley passed away on Saturday at 96 in Longview, Wash., her daughter-in-law, Marnie Blankenship told The Times. Local television station KATU also reported on her death. The real Rosie behind J. Howard Miller's iconic wartime poster, commissioned by the Westinghouse Company's War Production Coordinating Committee, was only recently discovered. It's believed Miller based the We Can Do It poster on a 1942 newspaper photograph of a female war worker.