Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edward J. King mobilized the state National Guard as service stopped. The guardsmen will be used to help maintain security at the system's stations and to aid travellers stranded by the cutoff...
...Edward J. King mobilized the state National Guard as service stopped. The guardsmen will be used to help maintain security at the system's stations and to aid travellers stranded by the cutoff...
...cuts; business would get $15.7 billion. But there is one key difference: Carter's plan for individual reductions would be used to offset the scheduled 1981 increase in Social Security taxes. This would reduce taxes for everyone with incomes up to $29,700 a year (next year's cutoff point for Social Security payroll taxes), but have no effect on the marginal rates for workers who make more. This, say conservative economists, would limit the tax cut's effect on providing individual incentives for increased productivity and willingness to seek work...
...loss of Iraq's supplies is more serious. Exports averaged more than 3.2 million bbl. a day, representing 11% of OPEC's total, the biggest production after Saudi Arabia's. The major victims of the cutoff now will be Brazil, which has depended on Iraq for 45% of its oil needs, Japan (30%) and France (23%). With the noncombatant OPEC nations probably making up the shortfall, there may be some scrambling for supplies, but it still should not be too difficult for consumers to buy all they need...
...defense of the need for privacy in evaluating candidates: "Words written with the likelihood of publicity are likely to be bland and noncommittal and nonspecific." Last month, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall overruled Schneider's finding and ordered Berkeley to deliver the documents in 30 days or face a cutoff of federal contracts totaling roughly $25 million yearly...