Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month passed. Silence. Then came a computer printout from HEW, reminding Sears to return the form and once more threatening a cutoff of funds. Beckwith again wrote to explain why he had not filled out the form. On Dec. 2, a HEW secretary phoned him to repeat the warning. Her call was followed by one from a HEW attorney, who expressed regret at "the sequence of events" but told Beckwith that HEW would nevertheless cite his school for failure to complete the form...
...against Pretoria-a step that would have caused real damage not only to South Africa but also to the Western powers and many smaller nations that trade with it. In the end, the African members settled for a permanent arms embargo. The Western members had wanted a six-month cutoff provision in the measure, to give the South Africans an inducement to ease up on apartheid and repression, but they decided to accept the permanent embargo. "This will assuage us," remarked Ghana's ambassador, Frank Boaten, "but only for a while...
...recent years, the federal government has repeatedly flexed its financial muscle, threatening universities with a cutoff of federal funding if they refused to comply with federal guidelines on issues ranging from affirmative action to facilities for the handicapped...
...small things will probably determine the playoff winner. L.A. second baseman Dave Lopes' ex- plosive baserunning, well-executed cutoff throws, timely double plays--these are the rarely noted but critically important factors that are the stuff of championship teams...
Abortion funding Assuming the Supreme Court's 1973 decision on abortion was correct, the recent decision allowing cutoff of public funding is simply wrong. The state may consistently pay for an appendectomy while denying funds for cosmetic surgery, because that distinction does not involve any controversial moral views. But the supposed difference between an appendix removal and an abortion does depend on a moral position. The state has no business enforcing a moral judgment on a minority...