moratorium

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Members of several social justice organizations spoke at a City Council meeting this week, demanding a moratorium on code enforcement operations and restitution for vendors whose property was seized.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The end of the Irish moratorium on new data centers has allowed Microsoft to try to proceed with plans for a big new data site in Naas, just outside Dublin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Commissioner Andrews and Massingill, the county judge, repeated that Texas counties had little authority to restrict development, warning that a moratorium could trigger lawsuits the county could not afford to fight.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

Several local organizations have called for a two-year moratorium on the use of AI in New York's public schools, which educate more than 900,000 students.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

What made the scheme novel was that for the first time it decoupled a test moratorium from all other disarmament issues, thereby removing the major cause of the deadlock between the two countries.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik