Word: moratorium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month, a bill sponsored by Rep. Charles Rose (D-N.C.), which would have imposed a two-year moratorium on animal patenting and revoked the Harvard patent, was defeated by the House Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration of Justice...
Some economists believe that if Cardenas surges at the polls, De la Madrid may declare a partial moratorium on Mexico's foreign debt. This would serve to undermine the left, allow De la Madrid to leave office drenched in public applause, and give Salinas the funds to prime a stagnant economy. Yet just as the Spanish defeat of Hidalgo's revolt against the crown only postponed Mexican independence, such fiscal populism might only delay a more fundamental political reckoning...
...that lay territorial claim to parts of Antarctica -- Argentina, Australia, Britain, Chile, France, New Zealand and Norway -- as well as the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which do not recognize the sovereignty of any nation on the continent. Among other things, the group regulated scientific investigation and enforced a moratorium on commercial exploitation in the region. Like the original treaty, the new one sidesteps the issue of territorial claims...
Both Wolf and CCA Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 said they would only support rezoning if a moratorium on building in Harvard Square went with it. Duehay said that such a cap would be necessary to prevent "excessive growth during the period of the study...
...group of more than 20 congressmen hopes to place a moratorium on the approval of any more animal patents until the ethics of the situation can come under closer scrutiny. The legislation would also revoke the Harvard patent until a decision were reached...