Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students still working when libraries close find the cutoff jarring and inconvenient...
Although Georgetown has no numerical cutoff for applicants, the admissions director said "numbers count...
...applicant who did not receive endorsement and asked to remain anonymous said, "I think I'll apply anyway. From what I understand, the endorsement committee here have a cutoff for GPA, but the Rhodes committee tends to see grades as one facet of the application...
...most provocative: an oil embargo. North Korea imports almost 75% of its petroleum products from China. If oil were cut off, the army would stop running. But China frowns on sanctions of any sort, and would hardly agree to halt the petroleum flow. Even if Beijing ordered a cutoff, Chinese businessmen along the long border are doing such a profitable business with North Korea that they might be inclined to ignore the embargo order...
...popular target is aid to legal immigrants, with provisions for the deepest cuts in the House Republican bill and the Mainstream Forum bill (backed by moderate and conservative Democrats). Talent-Faircloth also puts a ceiling on all welfare spending except Medicaid, while the House G.O.P. bill imposes a cutoff on earned income tax credits. Clinton's plan now lets the states decide whether to cap benefits to welfare mothers who bear additional children. Though some of his top advisers still favor it, the President has rejected a plan to raise new revenues by taxing benefits paid to farmers who earn...