Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cent, Mitchell L. Adams '66, dean for finance and business, says the power plant's rising costs had nothing to do with the unprecedented leap. Adams says 12 per cent of the rise simply matched the inflation rate, and the remaining 8 per cent will make up for the cutoff of federal capitation funds, part of Congress's recent budget-trimming. "If there were no power plant, we would have had the same raise," he says. But sources close to the Medical School say that even if Adams is speaking the literal truth, rising power plant costs cannot help affecting...
...into fuel. Finally, the bill included a provision to fill the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve. For months the Department of Energy has delayed buying oil for the reserve largely because of opposition from Saudi Arabia. The 750 million-bbl. stockpile of oil would be used in case of another cutoff of petroleum from the Middle East...
That at least is the opinion of oilmen and Government officials. Last week they were considering whether a renewed Iranian cutoff would create havoc in world markets and compel "oil sharing" among the U.S. and 19 other members of the International Energy Agency...
...would cost 1 million bbl. in the U.S. a day in lost production in the first year. The U.S. Government estimate: 100,000 bbl. per day. > Reagan claimed: HEW threatened to cut off funds from a Bellingham, Wash., school because teachers were spanking more boys than girls. The threatened cutoff actually involved a school in Bellevue and concerned unequal athletic facilities as well as disciplinary violations. > Reagan claimed: Americans could "have cheap gasoline again by lifting Government restrictions" on the oil industry. Not even the oil industry would buy that...
Harvard admissions officers deny they determine cutoff scores--scores below which they would take no applicants--and emphasize that tests are only one tool in the admissions process. "In some schools you can find there is an unfair cutoff, but we have no formulas. We look at the whole application," Geraghty says...