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...major business of the night, the council approved a request by City Manager Robert W. Healy to prepare an appropriation order for a planning study in conjunction with the Larkin Petition, which will put a moratorium on development in East Cambridge for 18 months...
...policies Buchanan advocates and the language he uses fail to live up to the importance of the cause he has embraced. Buchanan has not been shy in calling for dramatic changes, such as a moratorium on immigration and an aggressive campaign to build "American morals." He has called for a radical shift in America's trading policy, to orient it toward preserving the standard of living of American workers through tariffs and subsidies...
Since the incident, the Navy has voluntarily put a moratorium on its activity in Vieques...
Williamson has been a member of local Democratic groups, tenants' rights groups, building preservation societies and other local activist groups. He wants to restore and extend affordable housing, put a one-year moratorium on commercial real-estate developments, renegotiate the "payment in lieu of taxes" agreement with Harvard, and look for a new city manager...
...country's moratorium is another country's protectionism, and the U.S. is suspicious of Europe's actions. Tension between the U.S. and the E.U. was already running high this summer after Europe decided to continue a ban on hormone-raised U.S. beef and the U.S. hit back with a 100% tariff on some E.U. food exports. Coming in the midst of such a catfight, the GM ban looks like vengeance as much as prudence. What's more, if Europe is so worried about GM foods, why is it growing them? France produces its own small crop of GM corn...