Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...casual employees," 669 or 49 percent made less than the $10 cutoff. Casual workers are officially designated as those who work less than three months at full time or less than 17.5 hours per week. They typically receive lower wages and no benefits...
...software to zero (the Chinese post it all free on the Net) snapped the economy like a dry twig. Air Force squads shake down drivers on the highways. Roving "radical proles" terrorize the dwindling bourgeoisie. Oscar's base of operations, a beleaguered Texas biotech lab, faces a funding cutoff and a Governor wielding biological weapons. And some Net robot keeps spamming lists of madmen, urging them to knock Oscar off. How's he going to reshape the government in time to save America? Especially since Oscar is (arguably) in love...
...clinical psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School, says most schools are failing boys by forcing them into an "educational straitjacket." Elementary schools lack male teachers, "sending a message to boys that learning is primarily for girls." Young boys, he claims, learn at different tempos, and perhaps the cutoff birth month for starting school should be later for boys than for girls. Once there, boys should be allowed to move around more, taking short recesses when they are restless. They should be able to use computers rather than be forced to write by hand before their small-motor skills...
Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter sends letters to students who make the grade cutoff, encouraging them to apply. To apply, students must submit recommendations from two faculty members for review, and they are notified of the committee's decision about a month later...
...roll gains over. But it gives you a $500,000 exclusion if you are married ($250,000 if single) every time you sell a primary house--so long as you have lived in it for two of the past five years. Again, '97 is a transition year with important cutoff dates. The old rule applies to sales before May 7, the new rule after Aug. 5. If you sold, or went to contract or even bought a new house without having sold the old one in between those dates, you get your choice...