Word: moratorium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven Ivy League schools, according to a longstanding pact, launched their notification letters through U.S. mail at 1201 a.m. on the 15th and then imposed a moratorium until the morning of the 19th, by which time most applicants should have learned their fates...
...housing policy initiative released three weeks ago shortly after his election as mayor. Vellucci called for a moratorium on all condominium-related debates in the council...
Vellucci called the Linnaean St. case "a monkey on our back" and said that despite his request for a moratorium on condo discussions, "We're trying...
...Councilor David Sullivan, one of the strongest supporters of the city's condo conversion ban, said that the moratorium was never really in effect...
...poker game of new weapons programs that is always taking place alongside the negotiating table, the Soviets seem to be upping the ante. When Brezhnev last week reiterated, and slightly refined, the moratorium proposal, he also issued a vague warning of major new Soviet deployments directly threatening the continental U.S. To Western ears, it sounded as though Brezhnev was hinting that the U.S.S.R. might put Soviet missiles back on Cuba. That would violate the Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement that ended the 1962 crisis, and raise the specter of a new, potentially even more serious confrontation in the next couple...