Word: moratorium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council also voted to send to the planning board a proposal to extend the city's moratorium on institutional conversion of residential housing to other uses...
...Republican economists were shaping a tax package that included not only Reagan's cherished 30% cut in income tax rates over three years but substantial benefits for business as well. Also under consideration was a one-year moratorium on all new federal regulations, except "emergency" health and safety rules...
...Reagan pledge on which businessmen hope to see fast action is his vow to reduce Government regulation. He has already said he will scrap the failed Carter wage and price guidelines as soon as he takes office, and some expect him to proclaim a moratorium on the issuance of new rules by Washington's myriad regulatory agencies. Says W. Martin Dillon, chairman of Northwestern Steel and Wire Co. of Sterling, Ill.: "The biggest thing the Reagan Administration could do is just stay out of our hair...
...American Friends Service Committee will file legislation by next month to increase access to maximum-security prisons, restrict prisons' methods of disciplining and obtain a moratorium on prison building in Massachusetts, a staff member said yesterday...
Fortunately, there is one author in a position to do something about this situation. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding) plans to introduce special legislation that would exempt publishers from the Thor ruling. The bill would join one sponsored by Senator Gaylord Nelson, who favors a moratorium on implementing Thor. In the meantime, publishers searching for loopholes might consider the tax credits available for energy conservation. Books stacked against the walls of warehouses might be considered insulation. For the more literary, who prefer a Swiftian modest proposal, there is always the book-burning stove...