Word: cutoffs
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...Warned the board of education in Chicago, where only 13% of the city's 500,000 pupils attend integrated schools, that it too may face a cutoff in federal funds. At the same time, HEW teams were studying patterns of segregation in 45 other cities, a signal that Gardner may be preparing to take action in the hypersensitive area of defacto segregation...
...selecting the middle-group elite reformed. Next fall a few chairs in each of the accelerated courses will be saved for students who write dazzling first papers in regular sections. This year talented freshmen writers who didn't take the AP test or failed to make the arbitrary cutoff scores had no chance to get into the middle-group seminars...
...cutoff was aimed at further damaging Gibraltar's already dented commerce. Due to earlier harassments, the colony's tourist-based economy has declined 40% in the past two years. Now anyone who wants to visit Gibraltar will have to either fly in, cross the border on foot, or come by sea. Foodstuffs that previously were trucked in from Spain now will have to come by boat from Morocco. Already there is a shortage of fresh milk. Declared Gibraltar's colonial Governor Sir Gerald Lathbury in a radio broadcast to the colony: "We have reached a milestone...
...they pay up. Because the amnesty only concerns crimes committed before the end of January 1966, it does not affect such accused bigamists as Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren. Since they have gone right on living together, it is presumed that they have persisted in their crime beyond the cutoff date. If Ponti and his pals find that less than pleasing, they are no angrier than the cops who have to go out and catch many of the freed offenders all over again. They also have to deal with a new crime wave every time an amnesty is even considered...
Brown's Tom Niederer hit a triple and Skenderian knocked in two runs a single, but a bobbled grounder, a missed cutoff, slow jumps on fly balls, had throws to wrong bases tell better the story of those two innings...