Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lobbyists concentrated both on persuading Congressmen to co-sponsor the Drinan-Gravel Resolution--which is still frozen in committee-- and on urging undecided, or "swing," senators to vote down the Byrd Amendment to the pending Case-Church Amendment. The Byrd Amendment makes cutoff of Congressional funds contingent upon a ceasefire agreement, and lobbyists felt it greatly weakened the original move. But Washington did some lobbying of its own. Tuesday morning Administration officials, including Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Secretary of State William P. Rogers, met with selected "swing" Senators. Tuesday afternoon the Byrd Amendment passed...
...More opportunity to work for extra money. At present, recipients under 72 lose $1 of benefits for every $2 they earn in excess of $1,680 a year. This cutoff point might be raised quite justifiably to $2,000 or $2,400. After all, retired people who have been able to accumulate stocks and bonds are not penalized for collecting dividends and interest in addition to Social Security payments...
...back fairly extensively "modified" plans that give accident victims with permanent injuries or with high medical expenses the chance to sue for any amount they think they can get. The lower the limit for "high" expenses, the less savings to consumers in premium reductions. Under an extremely low $100 cutoff system being considered in New Jersey, for example, consumers would pocket only an average of 10% on premiums for bodily injury insurance v. 42.6% in Massachusetts, where the minimum suit possible on wage and medical losses must be for more than $2,000. Since the price of collision coverage...
...chagrin, Muskie had suggested a peace plan that went beyond his own; it would call for a fixed U.S. withdrawal date and urge the Saigon leaders to "move toward a political accommodation with all the elements of their society"-with the implicit threat of a U.S. aid cutoff if Saigon refused...
Uprooted from her old house by a spurious urban-renewal scheme in Knoxville, Louvenia had lost the will to live. She was "gone, not even to a major highway but to a cutoff of a cutoff...