Word: cutoffs
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...China whenever the two countries have come into conflict. To some degree, the record over the past few years bears that out. China's responses to Washington's efforts have been "a mixed bag," says a State Department official. The U.S. has been quietly appreciative of Beijing's cutoff of military assistance to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1990, of its cooperation in the apparently successful effort to freeze North Korea's nuclear-weapons program and of its restraint in using its U.N. Security Council veto against U.S. initiatives. But Washington remains utterly frustrated by insensitivity--if not outright...
...clear separation of 84 'regular' admissions places from 16 'special' places for minorities, together with the use of different numerical cutoff points for the two groups, was held to be unlawful.... Under the Bakke ruling, it was judged permissible to take race explicitly into account as one factor in making university admissions decisions, provided that the institution can show that the practice is necessary to promote a substantial interest...
...plot itself is poorly structured. Chances are that you will find yourself wondering, fairly often, what is going on. Why Allen is so intent on finding Linda in the first place is never really explained. And sure, dirty jokes are funny. But there is a cutoff point for everything. Unless the sight of a dildo lying in a fish tank makes you crack up, most likely you will end up rolling your eyes at Allen getting hot and bothered when he sees the latex fish...
...budget by 2002, are planning to provide a credit of $500 per child to families earning up to $200,000 a year. But that tax break would exclude more than a third of the children in America whose families earn so little that they owe no income tax. (The cutoff is $24,310 for a family of four.) Those families, however, pay record amounts of Social Security payroll tax, from which Congress is offering no relief...
Current Phi Beta Kappa members are eligible to elect new members, a process which includes an examination of transcripts, activities and letters of recommendation. The bottom GPA cutoff for men this spring was roughly 13.9 according to member Rajath Shourie '95, who is a Crimson editor...