Word: moratorium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first clear indication of the government's moratorium on elections came late last month in a speech by Humberto Ortega Saavedra, 34, the Defense Minister. On the same platform was the visiting President of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Carazo Odio, who had made a strong plea, as advice from a neighbor, for early elections. But when it came his turn to speak, Ortega announced that elections would not be held until 1985. "The economic and moral destruction of the country is of such magnitude that it cannot be rebuilt before 1985," he said, by way of explanation...
City officials, who have said institutional expansion worsens the city's housing shortage and erodes Cambridge's tax base, placed a moratorium on expansion by universities and organizations except Harvard last winter...
...This moratorium is the first step to implement the great victory the city won earlier this summer when the legislature allowed us to zone Harvard," city councilor David Sullivan, who authored the bill repealing Harvard's exemption, said yesterday...
...necessary action by the city; it gives us time to come up with comprehensive, permenant regulations," Sullivan said, adding that if the zoning codes were not passed by January 1, "I trust the moratorium will be extended...
Harvard "will just live with the moratorium," Lewis A. Armistead, assistant to the vice-president for government and community relations, said yesterday...