Word: cutoffs
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...sounded like they prelude to a dramatic reversal of American foreign policy. A cutoff of military aid to the ruling regime in EI Salvador perhaps, or a severing of U.S. ties with South Africa? No way Shultz was outlining a plan called "Project Democracy." which the Reagan Administration intends to start up as the latest weapon in its ongoing ideological crusade against Communism...
...presidents of Black colleges and universities have, however, objected to the requirement that freshmen athletes have a combined score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. They are right in their outrage and objection. The use of the combined SAT cutoff point will in no way address itself to the reason Black and Hispanic students take these tests less well than the students who come from families with higher incomes. It simply narrows the major escape route available to athletically talented Black youngsters. At its very best, the policy is a misguided effort to reach a laudable...
When the NCAA adopted a SAT cutoff score of 700, it was known that the new policy would fall disproportionately on Black athletes. The mean SAT score for Black high school graduates is 694 for Black students and 925 for white students. If this policy had been in effect in 1981, 51 percent of the Black athletes currently competing in Division I of the NCAA would be ineligible for competition. Grambling, Jackson State and Florida A&M could not effectively compete with nearby white universities for revenues in lucrative cable TV markets. It is either a profound irony...
...House Appropriations Subcommittee early last week recommended withholding more than $500 million in production funds until the Pershing II has successfully completed its tests. After the missile's encouraging flight, however, it is unlikely that the full Appropriations Committee or the House will go along with such a cutoff...
...hear dog whistles or the shrill hiss of a department-store electronic security system. Their problem, as in Kam's case, generally goes undetected because of inadequate testing. Most testing devices do not produce sounds above a certain frequency, Berlin says, "and it is precisely at this cutoff that ultra-audiometric patients begin hearing." Worse still, ultra-audio-metrics may lose what hearing they have if they use conventional hearing aids, says Berlin. "The aids can cause overstimulation or acoustic trauma...