Word: cutoffs
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...joined the ranks of the unemployed in March alone - but those that remain are earning even less. "People here wish they were mileuristas," says Iolanda Velasco, a Vigo city councilwoman. "They're 800-euroists." Velasco, who oversees the city's youth programs notes another change. "The cutoff age for our workshops and training sessions was 30. But because the age [people leave home] keeps rising, we just changed...
...Ends Meet In the hours before a July 1 deadline to pass budgets for the 2010 fiscal year, lawmakers in 10 states scrambled to make up for billion-dollar shortfalls by proposing everything from taxing cell-phone ringtones to closing state parks. While Mississippi, Indiana and Delaware made the cutoff, others did not. Ohio and Connecticut will keep the lights on without an official budget in place, while California, which faces a $24 billion deficit, announced plans to issue IOUs until representatives can resolve a legislative stalemate...
...targets. American environmental consultant Steven Q. Andrews accused the government of switching to monitoring stations in lower pollution areas, changing the makeup of the air pollution index to focus on less prevalent pollutants, and reporting a disproportionately large number of days with pollution measurements just below the "blue sky" cutoff. Du Shaozhong, the deputy head of the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau, denied the allegations. In a recent paper, Andrews reported on similar "blue sky" biases in several other major Chinese cities...
...past year, the proportion of days just under the "blue sky" cutoff has decreased in Beijing. Whether that's a sign that the numbers are more accurate, or merely better gamed, is still unclear. The city's hot, humid summers and occasional sandstorms mean that air quality can turn bad with surprising speed. Without real-time reporting, the official data are more a matter of historical interest. This afternoon the Ministry of Environmental Protection reported the air pollution index for the 24 hours ending at noon on Friday was 159, or "slightly polluted." That's still pretty...
...this because one of the really complicated things for us is there are no rules. The mistake that lots of women make - the only mistake I think you can make really - is to think that because you can, you should. I think there is a cutoff [for things], and only you know when that is. So for instance, you can wear shorts when you're 46, but it's important what length they are. Just because you've got amazing legs, I think it's slightly strange to be wandering around the streets in hot pants...