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...unreliable for a subject who is telling the truth. "They have no more place in the courts or in business than a psychic or tarot cards," he says. Congress has ordered the Office of Technology Assessment to make a study of polygraph reliability and has placed a moratorium on the use of lie detectors by the Defense Department until the study is completed. Polygraph tests are generally not admissible as evidence in federal courts or in the courts of 25 states. To civil libertarians, questions about the polygraph's accuracy are almost beside the point. Asking a person...
Other cities are now evaluating the San Francisco model. Seattle is considering adopting a similar plan. Officials in Santa Monica, Calif., where a moratorium on new construction was imposed for six months in 1981, forced one builder with plans for a $150 million shoppmg-office-hotel complex to agree to a package of concessions. They include construction of 100 low-cost housing units, a child-care center and a 3½-acre park, plus a $2.25 million contribution over 20 years to a city cultural fund...
...press Congress to stop human engineering. Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee has introduced a bill, thought likely to win House approval, that would create a presidential commission to monitor, but not regulate, developments in the field. Gore last week called the clergymen's request for a moratorium on research "a hasty judgment...
...crux of the issue, is virtually impossible to calculate. The Government, which owns an estimated 34% of the nation's 475-billion-ton coal reserve, has routinely leased public land for coal extraction since 1920. In 1971, in order to evaluate its procedures, the Government declared a moratorium on federal coal leases. The hiatus, which did not end until 1981, effectively froze the market for coal leases, making future evaluations of tracts difficult. A 1976 reform requiring new leaseholders to mine their fields within ten years or forfeit their rights further complicated the mathematics of mine leasing...
...California case is analogous to nuclear free Cambridge in the sense that California pertained to a state moratorium against national policy," explained Cogan...