Word: cutoffs
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Unlike the short skirts of the 1960s, the new minis are not political or sexual proclamations. For many a dashing lass in that pioneering wave, the A-line mini was a kind of manifesto at the feminist barricades. The first cutoff skirts of Great Britain's Mary Quant, recalls Fashion Writer Suzy Menkes in the London Times, "were conceived as a rejection of everything that existing fashion stood for." They were also "an explicit sexual statement. Today's minis are far less predatory, and when they are worn over thick tights with leg warmers and big sweaters, they...
Tentative, or under "Consideration," stand her times, and those of many other swimmers in the meet, because the AIAW has not yet set definite cutoff marks. The governing body, under seige warfare with the NCAA, is uncertain how many members will defect to its rival before Nationals, and how many swimmers consequently will be available to fill event quotas...
While cautioning against the use of cutoff scores in any admissions decisions, the committee members acknowledged that scores become more useful at schools whose admission offices have "an embarrassment of riches." Lyle V. Jones, a committee member and researcher at the University of North Carolina, said yesterday...
...agreed. For advice on how to raise money, Jobs consulted both McKenna and Nolan Bushnell, his former boss at Atari. They suggested that he call Don Valentine, an investor who frequently puts money into new firms. When Valentine came around to inspect the new computer, he found Jobs wearing cutoff jeans and sandals while sporting shoulder-length hair and a Ho Chi Minh beard. Valentine later asked McKenna: "Why did you send me this renegade from the human race...
Reagan considered a long list of measures that the U.S. could take against the Polish government, including a trade boycott. In the end he settled on a set of largely symbolic sanctions: a cutoff of Poland's $25 million in credit insurance at the U.S. Export-Import Bank (which would discourage private banks from lending far greater sums), a suspension of the Polish national airline's right to land in the U.S., and a declaration that American territorial waters would be placed off limits to Polish fishing boats. The effect of these measures, the President hoped, would be to encourage...