Word: moratorium
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...conference has responded to this challenge by calling for a moratorium on personnel and funds from outside to the churches in Africa. The use of a moratorium is a strategy designed to promote the self-reliance of the churches and, by implication, greater freedom to speak out and act on African issues...
Michael B. King '79, a vice-president of the Harvard University Debate Council, opposed the resolution that a nuclear weapons moratorium is in the best interest of the United States in the second annual Harvard-University of California-Berkeley debate...
Alfred N. Metz '78, along with another Berkeley debater, supported a nuclear weapons moratorium before the audience of 3000 students and faculty of Berkeley and members of the Harvard Club of San Francisco...
Freeze Executive Pay. Federal Reserve Chief G. William Miller, who took a cut from $400,000 to $57,500 when he left the chairmanship of Textron, recommends that "top business executives demonstrate their leadership in the fight by holding down their own compensation." A one-year moratorium on raises by people earning, say, $100,000 or more would not make much economic difference, but it might be worth something symbolically...
...Israeli Premier and attempt to get direct Israeli-Egyptian talks resumed. He will advance Sadat's argument that the Egyptian President needs some indication of movement on the West Bank and Resolution 242 before talks can proceed. Specifically, the U.S. would like to see the Israelis put a moratorium on any new settlements...