Word: moratorium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the majority of Dartmouth students are "apathetic," according to both leftist and rightist students, most activists credit the moratorium with forcing Dartmouth students reflect on the issue of intolerance...
...destruction of the shanties set off a whole lot of issues related to racism," says DCD member Menon. The moratorium was the stage for a variety of student groups--women, homosexuals, and racial minorities--to denounce intolerance. "At the moratorium, everyone had their own personal agenda," says Leake of the Afro-American Society...
...tense moment. Earlier in the week in Mexico City, tens of thousands of workers and students marched through the center of a capital still marred by last September's disastrous earthquake to protest the belt-tightening economic policies of the De la Madrid government. The demonstrators demanded a moratorium on payments of the foreign debt...
...launching pad and killed three astronauts in January 1967, it took 21 months before manned space flights resumed. "We've got to reckon in about those terms," says New Jersey Republican Jim Courter, a member of the House Armed Services Committee who follows the space program closely. The moratorium could be shortened if the flaw turns out to be something that can be fixed fairly quickly. But it could stretch out for years if major modifications to the shuttles themselves or to the rockets that carry them aloft turn out to be necessary...
...alcohol policy made its debut at four masters' open houses this week and only one house master took advantage of the end of a two-week moratorium to serve alcohol...