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...inclined. Swing II voters (25%) were Republican-leaning independents. Swing II voters shared many of the concerns of the Swing I group on health care, crime and Medicare but took a harder line on fiscal issues and taxes, and when it came to welfare, they wanted a cutoff after two years. Says Penn: "The President had to prove his fiscal responsibility and toughness on crime and welfare before they'd give him the benefit of the doubt on anything else...
Faculty members evaluate all of the departments' recommended candidates and then inspect transcripts which contain records of all grades, not only those in concentration courses. They also discuss such factors as grade point average cutoff, a salient issue since mean grades can sometimes vary from department to department...
...unclear yesterday why the court chose February 1996 as a cutoff date...
...China whenever the two countries have come into conflict. To some degree, the record over the past few years bears that out. China's responses to Washington's efforts have been "a mixed bag," says a State Department official. The U.S. has been quietly appreciative of Beijing's cutoff of military assistance to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1990, of its cooperation in the apparently successful effort to freeze North Korea's nuclear-weapons program and of its restraint in using its U.N. Security Council veto against U.S. initiatives. But Washington remains utterly frustrated by insensitivity--if not outright...
...clear separation of 84 'regular' admissions places from 16 'special' places for minorities, together with the use of different numerical cutoff points for the two groups, was held to be unlawful.... Under the Bakke ruling, it was judged permissible to take race explicitly into account as one factor in making university admissions decisions, provided that the institution can show that the practice is necessary to promote a substantial interest...