Word: cutoffs
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Large public universities, for instance, are suddenly raising or establishing cutoff scores and grades for admission. That practice has ing been considered too rigid, and hence unfair. In an even blunter attempt to spur high schools to action, some systems, like California's are adopting specific curricular requirements. They're refusing to consider anyone without a set number of years in English, math, and so forth. Others are considering shifting their admissions emphasis to Achievement Tests, rather than SATs, and that, too, is adding to the momentum of attempted curriculum manipulation...
...were to take the highly improbable step of suspending all military and economic aid to Israel, the cutoff would sap Israel's military strength, but only in the future. Thanks to past American generosity, Israel has enough made-in-U.S.A. weapons to maintain its siege of Beirut almost indefinitely...
...Nearly 1,000 American artillery pieces, including 175-mm self-propelled guns and 155-mm and 203-mm self-propelled howitzers, provide 90% of the Israeli army's powerful punch. Both the air force and the army rely heavily on U.S. missiles. The crunch in any cutoff of military aid would come only when Israel began to run out of spare parts. Israel buys some $500 million worth of such spares each year...
...home runs, of course. No other American Leaguer ever achieved that parlay. Only Henry Aaron, Willie Mays and Stan Musial of the National League, and Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz has kept just those two baseballs in 22 years. Yastrzemski's habit is to relay his trophies, like an ordinary cutoff man, to Presidents of the U.S. "I've presented one to every President since Kennedy," he says. "What should I do with awards and trophies? Touch them...
...Bennett, who directed Dreamgirls. In a bad, in fact rotten, year for musicals, both demonstrated what an energetic and imaginative director can do with mediocre material. Dreamgirls, which opened last December, was an early hit, and "Nine," which came in at the last minute (five hours before the nomination cutoff), was a late one. But the most recent entry is the one the voters remember best. "Tommy was faced with the decision of whether to have the comfort of another week or two of previews or to open in time to qualify for the Tony," says Producer Zev Bufman, whose...