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Vellucci focused his efforts on the proposal for the P-3 lab. In a series of angry and emotional Cambridge City Council meetings, he confronted Harvard scientists with accusations of arrogance and indifference toward the Cambridge community. The meetings resulted in a nine-month moratorium on all recombinant DNA experiments in Cambridge while a review board drew up a Cambridge ordinance regulating such experiments...
...part of the College's effort to isolate the current salmonella infection includes a moratorium on the hiring of temporary employees in the dining halls--a move that comes almost a month after a Freshman Union employee objected to the use of the temporary workers as a possible health hazard...
...other side of Ed Brooke; the manipulative politician with an abysmal consumer voting record who has garnered tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from medical associations, realtors, bankers and insurance interests. There is the Ed Brooke who waffled on the Panama Canal Treaties and who favors a moratorium on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Finally, there is the Ed Brooke whose own personal finances are characterized by improprieties if not illegalities; and who has sponsored such incompetent (if not blatantly corrupt) men as former Federal District Judge Willie Davis, former U.S. Atty. James N. Gabriel and former GSA regional...
...fully realized that the whole subject of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza still clouded U.S.-Israeli relations. In fact, the only real controversy that emerged from Camp David was over how long the Israelis had agreed to refrain from building more settlements. Carter said that the moratorium was supposed to last for five years; Begin later claimed that he had agreed to suspend the settlement-building program for only the expected three-month period of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations...
...partying lasts for six weeks, and is followed by a "moratorium" on punching activity. The selections are made. "It's simply not true that they don't punch or won't accept people from a certain background--that's just not true anymore. They won't exclude anyone they like," a punchee said...