A Voluntary Moratorium?

Harmful moratorium on stem cell research.

Moratorium on mayhem lest there be a requiem.

A warm summer evening, June 25, 1965, and resident in medicine, Nick Pinheiro, was seated at his favorite tasca in Porto enjoying Portugal’s outstanding seafare and a bottle of chilled vinho verde. This had become Nick’s usual haunt on Friday evenings and he now knew most of the staff including Carlos, a waiter whose hoarse voice and slurred speech made deciphering the evening’s specials a chal...

Commercial speech, drugs, promotion and a tailored advertisement moratorium.

Proposed Moratorium on Changes to Network Protocol

Bill Crowther’s RFC No. 67 raised a much more fundamental issue than the question of marking. Any change to presently established protocol is going to involve changes in the hardware/software development efforts that have, in some instances, been going on for over 6 months. In the case of Multics, this effort has yielded programs either complete or in the advanced debugging stages. This is no d...

Studying the E ¤ ects of a Gas Tax Moratorium

There are surprisingly few estimates of the effects of sales taxes on retail prices, especially at the firm level. We consider the temporary suspension, and subsequent reinstatement, of the gasoline sales tax in Illinois and Indiana following a price spike in 2000. Earlier laws set the timing of the reinstatements, providing plausibly exogenous changes in the tax rates. Using a unique dataset o...