All 12 Uses of
moratorium
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Well, let's agree on a moratorium.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- To compensate the railroads of the country for the extra costs involved and "to cushion the process of readjustment," a moratorium on payments of interest and principal on all railroad bonds-secured and unsecured, convertible and non-convertible-was declared for a period of five years.†
Chpt 1.10
- I had to grant the unions' demands to cut down the trains-and the moratorium on bonds was the only way I could do it, so that's why Wesley gave it to me, for the workers, not for myself.†
Chpt 2.2
- What was wrong about that moratorium?†
Chpt 2.2
- Because you spent ten thousand dollars pouring liquor into people you hoped would prevent the directive about the bond moratorium!†
Chpt 2.2
- Well, your friends beat mine on that moratorium business, but mine beat yours on Rearden Metal-and I'm not forgetting it.†
Chpt 2.2
- It was understood that the moratorium was for five years!†
Chpt 2.5
- How many loans have you got from us and how many extensions, suspensions and moratoriums?†
Chpt 2.6
- The moratorium on brains.†
Chpt 2.6
- THE MORATORIUM ON BRAINS "Where have you been all this time?"†
Chpt 2.7
- You deserved every penny of that stock, and in the days of your father I would have refunded every penny of your profit-but under your brother's management, Taggart Transcontinental has taken its share of the looting, it has made profits by force, by means of government favors, subsidies, moratoriums, directives.†
Chpt 3.2
- Don't you know what they can do to us through this Railroad Pool, or through the Unification Board, or through the moratorium on our bonds?†
Chpt 3.3
Definition:
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(moratorium) a temporary stop to an ongoing activity