Word: interim
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...those living in eastern Germany, no amount of assistance and investment will be large enough or delivered fast enough. The number of unemployed in the region, estimated at half a million, threatens to expand further as enterprises come to the end of the interim period during which they had to keep underemployed workers on their payrolls. Some economists warn that half of the 8.5 million workers in the East could lose their jobs. Patience in the East is wearing thin: violence, including some directed against the small number of foreigners in the area, has been growing sharply...
...four Independents on the council--a loose coalition that usually opposes the policies of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) majority--complained that they did not have time to examine the compromise bill that was given to them moments before the meeting's scheduled start time. The interim freeze passed the council, 5-4, despite their objections...
Members of the business community turned out in force, packing the council chamber and the balcony above to voice their opposition to the interim freeze. Also in attendence were many supporters of the freeze, who argued that it is a necessary measure to protect the environment...
Councillor Edward N. Cyr, a vocal advocate of the ordinance, said that a compromise proposal would be worked out before the next meeting. He said the compromise would preserve the core of the interim agreement, while addressing some of the business community's concerns...
...changes were set in motion last April, when pro-democracy protests toppled the King's handpicked government and he was forced to lift a ban on political parties. An interim coalition took office with a mandate to write a new constitution and hold elections for parliament within a year...