Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...received an eviction notice. Under condominium conversion, tenants receive the choice of buying their apartment as a condominium at extremely high prices or vacating the apartment to make way for more affluent tenants. Solano says he discovered tenants had the right of appeal, and the complex appeal process can halt conversion for at least a year...
Although work proceeds regardless of the community's reservations, state officials empowered to halt the project have had more success in gaining consideration of the public interest, threatening to block the project if planners did not provide concessions that would limit the plant's emissions. Officials in the state Division of Air and Hazardous Materials should be commended for their extended efforts to overhaul the plant's design and to exact an agreement from Harvard to restrict the allowed emission level of nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant that can irritate the respiratory system...
...efforts of a newly formed community action group trying to halt the construction of the Observatory Hill athletic complex have met a new response from Harvard officials. They are confused...
Bakke is not the only victim to cry halt. A number of others have also gone to court with charges of reverse discrimination. Among them...
Given the pressure exerted on Kennedy to halt his first bill, it is evident that scientists, on the whole, do not react favorably to restrictions. But Beckwith believes that the imposition of some type of restrictions would not be any different from allocating federal funds. "I don't think that science proceeds freely," he says, adding that officials in Washington who review grant applications are the ones who decide what projects will survive...