Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Geneva figured heavily in another pending U.S. weapon decision, namely the fate of the MX in Congress. Reagan seemed on the verge last week of rescuing the controversial missile yet again from a funding cutoff by the Legislative Branch. In a highly polished lobbying campaign, he spoke to 150 members of Congress in small groups at the White House, constantly stressing that the U.S. would lose vital leverage in Geneva without the MX, which is scheduled to come up for a series of funding votes in the next few weeks. Using his favorite name for the missile, the President pleaded...
...Governors, 34 of whom are Democrats, issued no outcry against the proposed cutoff. "Revenue sharing has got to be on the table with everything else," said Colorado's Richard Lamm, a Democrat, about the concerted need to reduce the national deficit. But the Governors are by no means idle spectators in the fight over the program. They know that if cities lose their customary Washington pipeline, they will turn first to their state capitals to try to close the gap. Many Governors contend that their state surpluses are small relative to their budgets, and that they are required...
...attempts to evaluate all courses with enrollments of more than 14 students, excluding Expository Writing, tutorials, and seminars. However, not every course that meets the enrollment cutoff appears in the book. According to Faculty policy, the Guide cannot evaluate a course without the instructor's written permission. Each year, between 15 and 20 percent of all eligible professors withhold their approval, says CUE Editor Barbara S. Okun...
...over now work part time, vs. only 35% in 1960. A deterrent to full-time work for many retirees is that Social Security is in effect taxed at the 50% rate for earnings above $7,320. Thus many people work just enough to keep under the cutoff...
...oppression by other Nicaraguans." Cruz then warned congressional opponents of aid that they "have a moral obligation to insist that the Sandinistas restore Nicaragua's liberties and that the Communist world take its hands off our country." Cruz later said that it was "irrational" to believe that a cutoff of aid to the contras will lead to increased political freedoms in Nicaragua "unless you have made sure the Soviets and the Cubans are going to do the same vis-a-vis the Sandinistas." Summed up Cruz: "I disagree completely with the apologists who want to give the Sandinistas only...