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Harvard felt the first effects of the city's new power to regulate its expansion into surrounding neighborhoods Monday night, when city council included the University in a temporary moratorium on all institutional conversion of residential properties...
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...
...timing of the deal may cause problems. A four-month congressional moratorium on foreign takeovers of U.S. banks expired two weeks before Midland's action. That ban had been inspired by the wave of foreign acquisitions of U.S. banks, such as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.'s purchase of 41% of New York's Marine Midland. Financiers now are worried that the Crocker deal might push Congress to erect new barriers. Indeed, the General Accounting Office is expected to recommend next month that Congress reinstate the moratorium. That would limit the activities of British banks...
...criticism, particularly over its policy of building new Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank. Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson of Illinois offered an amendment to an Israeli aid bill that would have withheld $150 million of the $785 million in economic grants to Israel until Jerusalem imposed a moratorium on new settlements. The measure was defeated 85 to 7. A day before, Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, the Washington Democrat who has long been one of Israel's best friends in Congress, told the Washington Star that Prime Minister Menachem Begin had lost some American support by "taking an intransigent...
...electronics industry is equally jittery over the energy supply. Governor Brown has led a virtual moratorium on nuclear power plants. A host of technological problems has also blocked development of the 3.2 billion bbl. of heavy oil beneath the San Joaquin Valley. As a result, some companies are rapidly expanding into neighboring states, where land and labor are cheaper and energy supplies more predictable. Says Gordon Moore, chairman of the microchip front runner Intel: "Next year we'll have more employees in Oregon than in California...