Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Students, particularly those who have justleft home, are ultimately vulnerable in that theyare in an unfamiliar and often hostile world cutoff from their usual sources of support such asparents, friends, and home churches," Thornbergsays. "When duplicitous, high-pressure recruitingtactics are used by religious groups, the basictrust of education is violated...
Fitzsimmons downplayed the importance of test scores in admissions decisions, saying the University has no fixed cutoff...
...price of hardwood that Ray cuts is lower, in part because the kilns buy more of the cheaper log slabs -- the cutoff outsides of logs when they are squared by a sawmill into lumber. These, along with the hardwood, are charred in kilns, put through a hammermill and mixed with charred sawdust, coal, limestone, sodium nitrate, borax, wheat paste and steam, which turns the mixture into a slurry that is pressed into briquettes and then put through a drying process...
That may not assuage U.S. legislators who are certain that Pakistan seeks the Bomb to match India, which exploded a "peaceful nuclear device" in 1974. Looming in the background is a 1985 law requiring a cutoff of U.S. aid to any country that tries to illegally acquire American technology or supplies for nuclear bomb making. With his plea to Zia, Armacost was hoping to prevent that cutoff from being applied automatically. The inspection request was specifically aimed at Pakistan's top-secret facility at Kahuta, where most nuclear research is believed to take place...
...companies. Ordinarily, much of the salty water would be forced out of marsh areas by seasonal freshwater overflows from the nearby Mississippi. But the river now rarely floods, thanks to massive levees built along its banks to protect riverside land. The combination of saltwater intrusion and freshwater cutoff, says Houck, leaves the wetlands "caught in a double whammy. You couldn't do a better job of screwing up Louisiana if you planned it."Wilma Dusenberry, a Chauvin, La., restaurant owner, reflects the fears of many who depend on the bounty of the wetlands: "If we lose the marsh, we lose...