Word: moratoriums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have made a difference, though, when it comes to animal testing. After you ran a series on the torturing of rabbits at Mary Kay labs, the cosmetic manufacturer announced a moratorium on animal testing. Were you surprised...
...recent months the trade has been in retreat. Responding to growing public indignation, many industrialized nations have declared a moratorium on ivory imports. Among them: the U.S., France, West Germany, England, Canada and Australia. Japan and Hong Kong, the centers of the trade, followed suit. In Africa nations have declared war on the poachers. Thousands have been arrested, scores killed and tons of illicit tusks seized. Most significant of all, consumers are beginning to understand the link between their ivory baubles and trinkets and the mutilated carcasses from which they came. If regulation fails, consumer revulsion to ivory...
...enact a yearlong ban on drilling off vast areas of the coasts of California and Florida, a 50-mile stretch of the mid-Atlantic and part of New England. Congress has never before urged so sweeping a ban on offshore exploration. The committee also voted for a year's moratorium on oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Bristol Bay, an exceedingly rich fishing area...
...milk from BST-treated cows, and two provinces in Canada have temporarily halted the distribution of such products. In the U.S. the Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to approve the use of BST amid rising protests from concerned dairy states. Wisconsin's agriculture secretary has proposed a moratorium of up to three years on the use of BST while its economic consequences are studied, and several dairy cooperatives in | California said they will not accept BST-treated milk...
...their qualms, environmentalists concede that Bush has taken several commendable steps. Among them: proposing new regulations on medical-waste disposal, requesting stiffer penalties for ocean dumpers, calling for a moratorium on offshore oil drilling in Florida and California, and helping persuade Japan not to finance construction of a Brazilian road that would encourage continued deforestation of the Amazon region...