Word: thresholds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...establish the Socialists, who currently hold 285 seats in the 491-seat National Assembly, as the country's largest single party and deny a majority to their major opponents, the neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic and the right-of-center Union for French Democracy. But reaching that 30% threshold will be a daunting task. From a historic high of 37% in 1981, the Socialist share of the vote fell to 21% in the June 1984 European Parliament elections and rebounded only slightly, to 25%, in regional voting last March. Party strategists estimate that there is solid support...
...sold a 30-sec. commercial slot for about $200,000. And while viewing of all network programming declined by 4% in 1984-85, NBC increased its share of the 18-to-49 group by 10%. NBC also benefited from the shrinking of the network audience --15% since 1980. The threshold for ratings success was shrinking, thus giving shows with more specialized appeal a fighting chance for survival...
...right wing in El Salvador and embracing Centrist Jose Napoleon Duarte, wrote Oklahoma's McCurdy in a Washington Post op-ed article, the U.S. ended up "on the side of democracy and helped weaken both extremes, setting El Salvador on the road to a political settlement." Crossing the centrist "threshold" in Nicaragua, says Fortier, "could create a dynamic of its own, just as in El Salvador...
Although each retiree would experience only a small reduction in the increase of monthly benefits, the cumulative effect on total benefit outlays would be very substantial. A 3% indexing threshold would reduce 1989 Social Security outlays by about $35 billion. And if the same principle for limiting indexing were extended to all other Federal Government retirement programs, the savings would rise to $50 billion a year...
Although there is never a good way to raise tax revenue, there are three ways that are better than other alternatives. The first would be a 3% threshold on the indexing of the income tax brackets. Taxes would continue to be adjusted every year to offset the effects of inflation but only to the extent that inflation exceeds 3%. This would parallel the 3% threshold on the indexing of Social Security benefits and would be a natural basis for a political trade between those who oppose any reduction in the growth of Social Security benefits and those who oppose...