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...would cost 1 million bbl. in the U.S. a day in lost production in the first year. The U.S. Government estimate: 100,000 bbl. per day. > Reagan claimed: HEW threatened to cut off funds from a Bellingham, Wash., school because teachers were spanking more boys than girls. The threatened cutoff actually involved a school in Bellevue and concerned unequal athletic facilities as well as disciplinary violations. > Reagan claimed: Americans could "have cheap gasoline again by lifting Government restrictions" on the oil industry. Not even the oil industry would buy that...
Harvard admissions officers deny they determine cutoff scores--scores below which they would take no applicants--and emphasize that tests are only one tool in the admissions process. "In some schools you can find there is an unfair cutoff, but we have no formulas. We look at the whole application," Geraghty says...
...talk of boycotting Soviet spirits, however, there is not much evidence that sales are seriously falling. Some retailers claim that they are selling even more Stolichnaya by the case to hoarders who fear a permanent cutoff, or by the pint to those who dare not use it for entertaining. Ironically, one merchant noted that a brand left on the shelf in his store was Smirnoff, a domestic vodka distributed by Heublein. Says he: "People think it is Russian and they are refusing...
...breaststroke-1. Lundberg (H) 2:03.01 (school and pool record; NCAA cutoff); 2. Carbone (H) 2:05.50 (NCAA cutoff); 3. Schlatter...
...answer is not as obvious as it seems: whether-and to what extent-to arm Pakistan. The U.S. suspended both military and economic assistance to Islamabad in April 1979, after concluding that Pakistan was secretly engaged in building a uranium-enrichment plant capable of making atomic bomb materials. That cutoff was required under U.S. laws aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Furthermore, Washington has reason to worry about the longevity in office of Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. Ever since he seized power 18 months ago, Zia has been promising to hold general elections...