Word: moratorium
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...possibly infected in this country is still miniscule make the disease appear much more serious and widespread than it has proven so far. (Although China, as usual, has been prevaricating about the extent of infection, and it might be larger there than Beijing admits.) Harvard’s recommended moratorium on University-related trips to East Asia is overcautious. The recommendation has added to the sense that SARS is something especially dangerous and contagious...
Joining national and international health organizations in calling for restricted travel to areas afflicted by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Harvard issued an advisory on Friday recommending a moratorium on University-related trips to East Asia...
...early July, after over a dozen closed sessions, the committee reached a tentative agreement: Harvard would provide a $1 million parcel of land to be used for a park, $300,000 for neighborhood projects and a five-year moratorium on local construction, among other concessions...
Sullivan and Healy suggested a new plan to Harvard in October, calling for a ten-year moratorium on construction, doubling the amount of money Harvard would give, and requiring that the University take any future development projects directly to the MCNA for approval...
...initial trial represents a picture of the legal system at its worst and most dangerous, Hernandez and Cruz were only two of the thirteen Illinois death row inmates who were later exonerated; the reversals of these convictions—and 11 others—prompted Ryan to impose a moratorium on capital punishment in Jan. 2000, to the joy of anti-death penalty activists everywhere...