Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blindsided by the allegations, President Clinton ordered his Intelligence Oversight Board to conduct a "government-wide review" of the case. The White House is also investigating whether the CIA in 1990 secretly increased aid to the Guatemalan military to make up for a Bush Administration cutoff of overt military assistance as a protest over the Devine murder. FBI agents were dispatched last week to the NSA's headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, to secure its communications records on Guatemala. The cia, Pentagon and State Department launched their own investigations...
...England may be presented in New York next season--American goods imported from Britain--and it deserves to be. Meanwhile, during the remainder of this Broadway season, things may be looking up slightly for homegrown products. From now until the May 3 cutoff for Tony nominations, at least six new plays are planned, including yet another by McNally. Still, opening-night mortality rates being what they are, theater pros know better than to predict a resurgence of plays on Broadway. "Two or three," says Jujamcyn Theaters president Rocco Landesman, "would be an avalanche...
...though he did concede to wearing shorts for about 10 or 15 days last winter. He once stepped outside in his shorts and "went back inside and put on some pants," since the temperature that day was -40F with wind-chill, about ten degrees colder than his estimated cutoff for wearing pants. Don only owns one pair of jeans, but is thinking of "splurging" and buying another one. Don, Dave and Mike all succumb to wearing pants on formal occasions...
...most vigorous debates centered on the age cutoff, which was finally set at 40. Some staff members argued that the limit should be even higher, at age 50. People are living longer, they pointed out, and women who have children often don't come into their own until after their offspring become self-sufficient. "Finally, we decided to err on the side of youth," Seaman says. "To some extent, it was an arbitrary choice. But we wanted people who would be making a difference well into the next century...
According to the report, the 17.5 hours cutoff is lower than that of several area employers, such as Polaroid and the Bank of Boston, and that of all Ivy League schools except Brown...