Word: cutoffs
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...Broadway approaches the May 1 cutoff of eligibility for its Tony Awards, serious attention is being given to suspending the musical categories. The only obvious alternative is to nominate a string of flops. Of the seven musicals that have made it to Broadway so far this season, four closed after runs of three weeks or less; last week's ingratiating revival of a 1959 hit, Take Me Along, folded the day after it opened. The survivors are the umpteenth revival of The King and I and two April entries, both pummeled by reviewers: Leader of the Pack, a rock nostalgia...
...morning Papadakis finished a solid fourth in the preliminaries, well above the top-18 cutoff for the finals. The final results were calculated by adding the preliminary score to the final score. Papadakis dove exceptionally well in the afternoon to secure her second-place finish with a score of 493.00. Loftus, the first-place finisher, was only .65 points above...
Scherf qualified for NCAAs by winning the ECAC Championships last weekend, finishing the 5,000-meter run in a time of 16:12.14—a personal best. She shaved nearly three more seconds off that time to secure a top-eight finish—the cutoff for All-American honors...
...taxpayer bailout. If it comes to that, pensioners may get stuck with less than they expect. Already, there are limits to what the government will step in to pay. The maximum benefit for a retired 65-year-old in a failed pension is $45,614 a year. At that cutoff, 90% of those in plans taken over by the PBGC get full benefits. But in high-paying industries like airlines and steel--in which the biggest pension failures are now occurring--only 60% of pensioners get full benefits...
...measure is to better track students’ progress and help policymakers figure out where they are going wrong. The database would include students who drop out of college or transfer between institutions. Universities both private and public would be required to yield the data, potentially facing a cutoff of federal funding if they refuse. And there’s no way for students...