Word: cutoffs
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...you’re closer to acting like an adult.” According to Kaleva, the Roxy could not previously deal with the issue by simply making the club 21 and over because of competition between nightclubs in the Boston area. If his club had raised its age cutoff and other clubs had not, the Roxy would have lost business.“I’d like it to stay just the way it is,” he says of the new restrictions.Just downstairs from his office, though, a bouncer for the club has a different take...
...course it matters. We don't want to get into a position where the American people in six to eight months are so frustrated they demand an immediate cutoff of funds. That's not the way we want to have to leave Iraq, so you have these debates...
...that the increase in troop strength in Iraq may last only until the summer, the Administration rejects the idea of setting any firm limits on the U.S. commitment there. Says Rice: "This is going to happen over a period of time ... It's not as if there's a cutoff point, because that's not how it's going to unfold." And it's hard to imagine a significant decrease in U.S. troop presence in Iraq before the end of Bush's term...
Adolfo Calero, one of the three leaders of the United Nicaragua Opposition, said last week in Miami that his organization became so broke during the congressional cutoff that it is now $2 million in debt. Calero claimed that the contras rarely received any cash from the U.S. Government. The nonlethal aid arrived, he said, in the form of "goods and services," and the contras were asked to keep records on the deliveries...
...Chapel Hill began the program in 2003, at first offering the no-loans promise to any student from families earning less than 150% of the federal poverty threshold. Since then it has expanded the income cutoff to 200% of the poverty line, and the school currently has about 900 students attending cost-free. "All of us in higher education have been concerned about access and affordability," said Shirley Ort, director of scholarships and student aid at Chapel Hill. "But we did this frankly to simplify our message. With all the media focus about spiraling college costs, we were afraid...