Word: moratorium
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About 45 people who live in the Agassiz neighborhood around the North Yard voted unanimously to take a less contentious route than other areas of Cambridge and to seek a building moratorium from the City Council only as a last resort...
Other neighborhoods in the city have adopted more aggressive tactics to fight Harvard expansion. Riverside, the area along the Charles River, won a building moratorium from the City Council. Though the moratorium will expire next month, it prevents Harvard from building and helped to kill the University’s plans for a modern art museum...
Bloomstein said Agassiz residents could seek a moratorium if negotiations fail. But he said making such a move would only serve to delay the building process, while striking a deal would allow the neighborhood to obtain concrete benefits—such as the $1 million endowment for neighborhood programs...
...whole range of things are possible,” says committee member Alan C. Price. “From one extreme is whether or not to vote up or down the superintendent’s proposal as is, or the other extreme is a total halt or moratorium...
...fish will need a long time to produce a big, healthy spawning stock. "There is more pessimism now than at any time about returning to healthy cod stocks," says Rice. "We are talking in Canada now about closures that will last a decade." But fishermen know how effective a moratorium can be. A two-year closure of the North Sea herring fishery in the mid-1970s allowed an overfished stock to recover. So when the herring fishery seemed likely to collapse again in the mid-1990s, fishermen knew it would be short-term pain for long-term gain and cooperated...