Word: moratorium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...appeared that a new cycle of labor calm might ease the rising tensions. In southwestern Jelenia Gora, workers ended a two-day general strike after the government agreed to convert a party sanitarium into a public hospital. After Jaruzelski's dramatic public appeal for a 90-day moratorium, Solidarity's national commission in Gdansk canceled a threatened printers' strike and ruled out all other work stoppages for the time being. But Union Leader Lech Walesa added that "our ultimate response to the call for a moratorium will depend on what happens during negotiations with the government." Those...
Even if the reports, the licenses and the political dealings take place with unprecedented rapidity, cable t.v. is a few years off--the contracts must be put out for bids, amendments must be accepted, red tape followed and cut. Until some new system is constructed, the city's moratorium on cable t.v. within its borders will continue...
...federal government has refused to fund research, Biggers said. An expert committee he sat on recommended that the government end its moratorium on such research, but its recommendations had no effect...
...onetime economist for the Boeing Co. and currently a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, was an adviser to Reagan throughout the 1980 presidential campaign and headed a task force on ways to reduce governmental regulatory burdens on business. That group recommended a one-year moratorium on all new federal decrees concerning health, safety and the environment. Among professional economists, Weidenbaum is best known for his work on the economic effects of defense spending, and his studies on the cost of Government regulation, which were among the first ever done on that topic...
...effort to avert a collision with the government and stave off a possible Soviet military invasion, Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's independent Solidarity unions, had called for a moratorium on strikes until mid-January. But last week, after scarcely more than a month of relative peace, the labor front heated up again. Renewed protests and strike threats showed that the union leadership is still unable to impose a uniform discipline on the vast and restive labor movement...