Word: moratorium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students want a moratorium on hourlies and presentation of new material during the last half of Reading Period. They say students should have at least some portion of Reading Period free to review and assimilate course material...
...city is presently preparing special zoning restrictions designed to limit the density of educational uses by the institutions it has jurisdiction over. The city council this winter put a moratorium on institutional conversion of existing properties while all those new codes are being prepared--a moratorium that would apply to Harvard should the law pass the state...
Barron and other businessmen urged the city to increase the number of foot patrolmen in the area and to place a moratorium on new licenses for liquor and fast-food vendors in the Central Square area...
...November, the council asked Lesley to declare a self-imposed moratorium on the purchase of property until new guidelines to implement the land use regulations were prepared. The college's board of trustees unanimously rejected the proposal...
...construction has little to do with prison reform. The reform movement today, in fact, generally favors a moratorium on the building of new prisons. Its reasoning is simple. The only sure thing about an added facility is that it will be filled -and given society's policies, will soon enough become just another hellhole. President Milton Rector of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency even contends that if space is "readily available," the rates of incarceration tend to go up even though serious crime may be declining...