Word: moratorium
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...Know What You Eat Ending the E.U.'s five-year moratorium on the sale of new genetically modified products, the European Parliament approved legislation requiring the strict regulation and labeling of GM foods and animal feeds...
...lift on the moratorium was announced in a June 24 letter to the Harvard community by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby, though some students affected by the travel ban said they had not received a copy of Kirby’s letter from any Harvard department...
...just frustrating that Harvard forced me to cancel my summer plans in April (through the loss of funding and the moratorium) because of a health concern that was nearly over before I was supposed to even start my internship,” she wrote in an e-mail. “In addition, the Weissman did not offer me the option of receiving the grant money if the SARS ban was lifted, so I don’t even have the option of beginning my internship a couple of weeks late—even though I still technically could meet...
McCann said he wasn’t sure how students were dealing with the lift on the moratorium...
...over whales is an endless tangle of emotive issues wrapped up with national pride, cultural values and economic interests. And the IWC has been so fiercely and evenly divided that for decades, stasis has been the rule. The battle has been raging at least since 1986, when an IWC moratorium on commercial whaling took effect. It was intended to allow recovery and assessment of whale populations, but was never airtight: Norway filed a timely objection and, under IWC rules, continues its whale hunts. Japan conducts "scientific" catches - also permitted under the rules - but some of the meat has turned...