Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used as a plug on the crucial water supply, and there are already enough antiaircraft missiles in place to defend it from Iraqi bombers. Another, more wasteful proposal is simply to divert feeder rivers into desert areas. U.S. officials are aware that the Iraqi regime worries about a cutoff: in the early days of the crisis, Baghdad pointedly warned Turkey not to tamper with its water...
...doesn't cheap foreign oil create the danger of dependency? Well, what is that danger? It is twofold: a run-up of price and a cutoff of supply. True, our interest is in paying as little as possible for oil in the long run, not just today. Too low a price could be sucker bait, discouraging alternative energy sources and conservation, and setting the stage for a bigger rip-off tomorrow. It is impossible to say what price today minimizes the long-run cost of oil for consumers. What you can say for sure is that oil producers have exactly...
...influential in soothing fears within the army high command after Bhutto won the 1988 elections, responded coolly to Ishaq's move but deemed it "consistent with the constitution of Pakistan." The Bush Administration did not appear ready to go along with a handful of U.S. Senators who advocated a cutoff in Washington's almost $600 million-a-year aid to Pakistan in response to what they called a "quasi- military coup." But U.S. diplomats said the real test would be Ishaq's ability to deliver on his promise of elections, a commitment that previous Pakistani Presidents have broken far more...
...definition of borderline is not clear-cut. In general, scientists see blood pressure as a continuum: the higher the reading, the greater the risk of stroke and heart disease. But for practical purposes, doctors often set a cutoff point at 140/90, urging patients whose pressure is above that level to seek treatment. (The 140 is a measure of systolic pressure, the maximum force with which the heart expels blood; the 90 indicates diastolic pressure, the strength of blood flow between beats.) But in this study of nearly 1,000 patients, the researchers found that even people with a mean blood...
...consumers, it may bring a pleasant stability in prices. Reason: by taking a substantial stake in the refining and sale of the crude oil they used to pump for others, these newly empowered national oil companies now have much more to lose from a cutoff of crude to the West than they...