Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delegates avoided even hinting that they might repudiate their debts, realizing that any refusal to repay past borrowings would mean the certain cutoff of future loans. In Washington, William Cline, senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics, said, "No major debtor wants to jeopardize its long-run credit reputation further by joining anything that has the appearance of a cartel for debt moratorium or repudiation purposes...
...September 1 cutoff is not a great deal of help for colleges that must still track down students who never saw the certification from because they were away from home during the summer. While it does give colleges another month to chase, the extension still does not ensure that schools will be able to contact students before the regulations take effect--so colleges will not be able to disburse aid in September, when many grants are distributed to students...
...blamed if Central America goes Communist. Before last week's assassination of Commander Schaufelberger, the House Intelligence Committee voted to cut off U.S. covert aid to the estimated 7,000 contras in Nicaragua. However, moderate Democrats in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, realizing that a straight cutoff would never get by the Senate or the President, are trying to work out a compromise...
Reagan said the cutoff, of covert authority by Congress "was taking away the ability of the Executive Branch to carry out its constitutional responsibilities." Another member of the Administration, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, impugned the motives of some members in an interview with a Buenos Aires newspaper: "There are people in the U.S. Congress who do not approve of our efforts to consolidate the constitutional government of El Salvador and who would actually like to see the Marxist forces take power in that country...
Exactly what game Brandeis was playing was difficult to tell. Their outfielders over-threw cutoff men, the infielders mishandled grounders and their pitchers served up gopher balls...