Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money. Reagan is a conservative, budget-minded administrator confronted by a geometric rise in costs for a program that is in part a philosophical anathema to him. For months he fought to dispense smaller checks than those mandated under federal rules. HEW came within a day of announcing a cutoff of $684 million in aid to California, most of it destined for children and their unemployed mothers. Only last-minute negotiations averted the stop order. In New York, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, just re-elected to his fourth term, is preparing to ask higher taxes to meet the deficit created...
...prevent a recurrence of Apollo 13's troubles, NASA has drastically altered the design of Apollo's oxygen tanks, incorporating such safety features as stainless-steel-sheathed electrical wiring, heat regulators controlled by the astronauts, and external cutoff switches. In addition, NASA has added a third oxygen tank, a long-lived storage battery and extra water supplies as reserves for the command ship. Even Mission Control will profit from the $15 million safety overhaul. If any of Apollo 14's critical systems go awry, as did the defective oxygen tank in Apollo 13, loud beeping alarms will...
Hardly. The young have simply faced up to the cutoff in job and graduate-school deferments and instead have mastered the art of beating the draft with medical or psychiatric excuses. Moreover, they are getting crucial help from a growing number of psychiatrists and other physicians who write letters attesting to ailments that disqualify the registrants for military service...
Then came the crunch of meritocracy: besieged by more and more applicants, City kept raising the cutoff point for admission-from a high school grade average of 72% in 1920 to 85% in 1960. But now the city's newly arrived minorities were black, poor, lacking academic tradition and doing so disastrously in high school that college seemed impossible. Eight years ago, only 2% of C.U.N.Y. freshmen were nonwhite...
Britain and France, fearful of being strangled by a cutoff of Suez traffic, joined the Israelis in 1956 in a surprise attack on Egypt. Though Nasser's forces were badly beaten, he was saved when the U.S. and the Soviet Union combined to compel all three nations to withdraw their forces...