Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials insisted that the July 25 cutoff -- "Marker Day," not D- day, a State Department official helpfully explained -- was never intended to signal the immediate resumption of allied aerial strikes against Iraq. The arrival last Saturday of yet another U.N. inspection team in Baghdad gives Saddam additional breathing space. But the truth is that the current appetite for renewed warfare is slight. Bush does not want to seem trigger-happy when he arrives in Moscow this week for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. And Arab allies, whose cooperation is crucial to any Middle East peace conference, have signaled their distaste...
...move that some say threatens to undermine undergraduate education at Harvard, the English Department announced recently that it has raised the grade cutoff for students applying to the honors concentration...
Second, the amendment would have eliminated the resolution's 60-day automatic withdrawal of troops. The cutoff, which unnecessarily ties the president's hands, becomes an excuse for presidents to bypass the resolution's substantive requirement--consulting Congress. The Byrd-Nunn proposal--establishing a permanent consultative group and lifting the 60-day rule--would help the War Powers Resolution to reach its original aims...
...director general Edouard Saouma, an autocratic executive who likes to run his own show, has fought to keep control. Under threat of a funding cutoff from the sponsoring organizations, however, the U.N. organization agreed in Geneva earlier this month to cede control of the program to an outside governing council and to participate in the program's redesign. For the moment, these decisions have partially mollified critics, who are willing to wait to see whether these actions will produce meaningful reform...
...work done by Imanishi-Kari. In a statement issued from Rockefeller University, where he is now president, he acknowledged that "very serious questions" had been raised, and for the first time asked that the original paper be retracted. He left it to Imanishi-Kari -- who faces a possible cutoff of federal research funding -- to explain what went wrong...