Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With the cutoff of voter registration for the November election set for this week in Oregon, and with fears growing of a Wasco County coup by the Rajneeshees, County Clerk Sue Proffitt took unusual action. She announced that she was automatically rejecting all new applications for voter registration. Each applicant, she said, could seek a hearing at which his or her eligibility would be decided. She was doing so, she said, to stop "organized efforts to fraudulently register people." The cumbersome process would effectively stall any massive Rajneesh registration...
Though the precise cutoff line is blurred, the privilege fades the further such counseling moves away from the purely religious toward the merely psychological...
Although the Harvard admissions office applies highly quantitative standards, it employs no rigid cutoff levels or weighted formulas, and it demands no specific preparation. At Harvard Law, there's no such thing as a pre-law major...
...determination to stop the spread of Marxism-Leninism from Nicaragua to the rest of Central America. Meanwhile, leaders of the 10,000-member Nicaraguan Democratic Force of anti-Sandinista rebels known as contras declared they would intensify their guerrilla attacks against the Nicaraguan regime, despite a U.S. congressional cutoff in May of covert Administration aid to the war effort...
Suddenly Hess interrupted in a flat, unemotional voice, "We have an engine cutoff." Seconds later, NASA officials watched in helpless dismay while their proud young ship sputtered to stillness like a jalopy running out of gas. Concluded Hess stoically: "We have an abort." Nor was that the worst of it. As the astronauts lay strapped in their seats, awaiting instructions, hydrogen gas gathering in the ship's main-engine area burst into flames below them, shooting a tiny inferno through the engine pit. Sprinklers on the launch pad immediately flooded the pit with several thousand gallons of water, dousing...