In summary, we proposed an intervention programme based on the successful experience of HKSAR in the control of the H5N1 virus by a combination of targeted immunization with the correct vaccine, segregation of poultry species and a three week moratorium of poultry farming (see additional file 1).
San Diego City Council members, hoping to avoid a potential $800,000 fine for water pollution, Tuesday extended by six weeks a moratorium on building permits in the area served by trouble-ridden Pump Station 64 in Sorrento Valley.
After three weeks of moratorium of poultry in the province or district, hatchlings of chickens and minor poultry will be re-introduced from qualified central supplies which can institute proper disinfection of the external surface of the fertilized poultry eggs for a restart of poultry farming.
Two weeks after promising a moratorium on forcing tenants out of illegally converted loft apartments, the city made an abortive attempt yesterday to evacuate about a dozen tenants from their lofts onto the freezing sidewalks of the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, officials and residents said.
The ban, which was introduced last week, is slated to take effect Sept. 9, about two weeks before an existing moratorium prohibiting the dispensaries expires.
And in Washington, where the Vietnam Moratorium Committee announced less than two weeks ago that it was disband ing, antiwar groups called for "immediate massive protests" and announced plans for dem onstrations around the country.
The moratorium has been in place about two weeks.
It was the second effort in two weeks by the administration to deflect pressure for a national moratorium on foreclosures.
Washington was particularly surprised and offended because the North's satellite plan was announced barely two weeks after North Korea agreed on Feb. 29 that it would place a moratorium on long-range missile tests in return for 240,000 tons of American food aid.
The nuclear industry is coming out of a multi-decade moratorium that started with Hollywood's 1979 The China Syndrome followed two weeks later by a real malfunction at a reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island.
Both sides called the climate positive and agreed to meet again in Egypt in two weeks, though no progress was visible on a key point: whether Israel would extend its soon-to-expire moratorium on construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
