Word: moratorium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They were: 1) the end of a Soviet moratorium on the deployment of additional SS-20s in Europe, 2) accelerated preparations to introduce "operational tactical missiles of increased range," presumably meaning SS-21, SS-22 and SS-23 weapons, into East Germany and Czechoslovakia, 3) the probable deployment near U.S. shores of Soviet submarines carrying new long-range (1,500-mile) cruise missiles or rapid, depressed-trajectory ballistic missiles. At a meeting of NATO ambassadors in Brussels, Nitze called the Andropov statement a "hardening of the Soviet position...
...highly publicized controversy over the Financial Interest and Syndication Rule, which prevents the networks from owning and syndicating their own programs. Fowler wants to rescind it; but President Reagan, siding with the Hollywood producers who now hold the rights to most network programs, has urged a two-year moratorium on any changes in the rule...
...quickly after the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy went to Vienna for a summit with Nikita Khrushchev, who, judging Kennedy to be callow and inexperienced, ranted and bullied. Khrushchev followed the meeting by building the Berlin Wall and then, within a month, interrupting the informal moratorium on nuclear testing in the atmosphere...
Wilderness. While spending more for the upkeep of national parks and adding facilities for the handicapped, Watt put a virtual moratorium on the acquisition of new land and even resisted accepting acreage that private owners offered to donate. Furthermore, Watt proposed that at the turn of the century all 80 million acres of virginal U.S. wilderness could become available for drilling and mining...
This year President Hoover did not wait until late autumn before preparing for a hard winter. In June he inaugurated his moratorium plan as a world business stimulant. This he followed up by requesting all Community Chests, through their national organization, to survey joblessness, determine well in advance the "load of distress" they would have to meet. As before, he summoned Big Business to the White House for advice and comfort. Said he reassuringly, "The problem of Unemployment and Relief, whatever it may be, will be met." Before him loomed the A. F. of L.'s prediction...