Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stores, but Campeau, who already owns the Allied Stores chain of 286 retail outlets in the U.S., hiked his offer. Tired of being tugged in two directions, Federated set last Wednesday as a deadline for final bids. But the two sides kept sweetening their offers even beyond the cutoff, and Federated flip-flopped between choosing Campeau or Macy...
...destroy the contra bases along the Coco River, which separates Honduras from Nicaragua, and to capture a vital depot on the Honduran side of the border. The stockpile contains an estimated 300 tons of supplies that the CIA had flown into the area before the Feb. 29 funding cutoff. Without those arms and provisions, the contras' ability to wage warfare would be virtually nonexistent...
...With the cutoff of American aid to the contras in February, Managua believes it can win on the battlefield what it can't on the negotiating table. Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega displayed these noble intentions last week when more than 4000 Sandinista troops poured over the Honduran border in search of the main rebel supply depot. Was it just last August that Ortega signed the Arias Peace plan...
...major sticking point was a demand by Washington, voiced only two weeks ago, that any cutoff of U.S. military aid to the mujahedin must be matched by a "symmetrical cessation" of arms deliveries to the Afghan government by Moscow. Kozyrev contended that the Soviets have been providing military supplies to Afghanistan for decades and that any attempt to end such assistance amounts to interference in Soviet affairs. Said the Soviet negotiator: "It would be like Moscow asking the U.S. to end its military aid for Pakistan...
...segregation. As a result of a 1969 lawsuit by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the states were forced to submit plans to increase black enrollment and recruit more minority faculty at white institutions, and to upgrade facilities at traditionally black colleges. Otherwise, the states would face a cutoff of federal funds. Last week's ruling means that the four passing states -- Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia -- are now free of such orders...