Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Initially, some prisoners interpreted Whitley's reversal as a sign of weakness. But many changed their mind a few months later. After the state legislature imposed a strict October 1991 deadline for inmates to challenge their convictions, Whitley, alone of Louisiana's 12 prison wardens, helped inmates beat the cutoff. He authorized the prison printshop to run off 5,000 appeal applications. He instructed the prison radio station to hold a question-and-answer program, brought in a lawyer to field questions, then ordered all inmates to listen. He also made sure that illiterate inmates -- fully 70% of the prison...
More questionable was Bush's decision to announce a speedy cutoff for U.S. participation. It makes the operation less controversial at home, but could complicate life for U.S. commanders in Somalia and the peacekeepers who will replace them. The clan chiefs and gang leaders know that the big U.S. force is a lame duck, and they may delay, obstruct or simply dodge the Americans while they are there...
...representing, he has said, the top 2% of wage earners. The Bush projections are based on the 2% figure -- which actually includes people with incomes of less than $200,000. The Clinton camp has acknowledged the slight discrepancy but insisted the Governor will stick to the $200,000 cutoff...
...people on the islands. Many of the civilians living there were attracted by the high salaries that the Soviet Union used to provide anyone willing to work in such remote places. Today those who came only for the money are bitterly disappointed, faced with sharp price increases and the cutoff of special supplementary pay. That has led many to welcome the notion of a return to Japanese control -- and spawned fanciful dreams of compensation that some guess could reach $100,000 for any leave takers. Says a young mother who came with her husband on a work contract six years...
...first week of U.N.-imposed economic sanctions did nothing to halt the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serb forces have seized more than two- thirds of the territory and are bombarding the capital, Sarajevo. But the cutoff of trade, including oil, did make officials in the rump state of Yugoslavia squirm publicly...