Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear that the U.S. Government is outraged over the brutality in Tiananmen Square, it does not want to jeopardize the ten- year-old "strategic partnership" between Beijing and Washington. Already there is congressional pressure to act. On hearing of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Senator Jesse Helms called for a cutoff of American military cooperation with the People's Republic...
WHEN the two presidential candidates were asked in their first debate about the recent federal cutoff funding for the drug AZT--a drug which has been shown to slow the progress of AIDS, neither one responded to the question...
...officials say the welfare rolls declined 6.5%. But most of the jobs are barely above the minimum wage, and the 52,000 represents about a quarter of all the people who have been eligible. As workfare, it is all carrot, no stick; no one is faced with a benefit cutoff if he or she refuses to work. As a result, much of the hard-core Underclass is beyond the reach of ET. Those who get jobs tend to be those who have been employed in the past. Still, it is a start...
...determining whether a high-school recruit is qualified to attend college in the Ivy League is through the Academic Index (AI)--which converts class rank, SAT scores and grades into a sum which is supposed to reflect a student's academic aptitude. If a score is above the AI cutoff point--161--the athlete is qualified for admission. If the score falls short, even by a single point, then the athlete...
...opened a four-week run in February at the R.S.C.'s home in Stratford-upon-Avon. The show was rewritten almost nightly; special effects misfired disastrously; one of the two leads quit. Problems continued when it moved to New York City, and the opening was postponed beyond the cutoff for Tony nominations, undercutting the marketing strategy...