The issue of reliability is an important one downtown because the Sept. 11 attack cut off many companies, even those who had multiple carriers, because all their wires connected at 140 West Street, which was heavily damaged.
Seasoned observers say the event has regained some of the energy it had before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which cut off the advertising revenues that fuel Mipcom and led to American media groups keeping lower profiles.
The September 11 Fund, the second largest of the 350 funds created after the attacks, will cut off enrollment for some programs on Jan . 31and close its office in 2004.
During 1944, Allied submarine attacks effectively cut off the supply of oil from Southeast Asia to Japan and greatly reduced Japanese imports of other commodities.
"An attack would cut off a major shipping lane.
India moved its crack Strike Corps into Rajasthan, within fifty miles of the border, and once again, as in 1987, there were fears in Islamabad of a preëmptive Indian attack to cut off southern Pakistan from the north.
Mr. Lutnick's firm lost 658 employees over the course of a morning 12 years ago, then just four days after the attack, he cut off the paychecks to the families of his employees — some dead, some still listed as missing.
Critical errors by several staff officers, and by Joseph Stalin himself, who failed accurately to estimate the 6th Army's potential and overestimated their own newly trained forces, led to a successful German pincer attack which cut off advancing Soviet troops from the rest of the front.
Shopkeepers, hairdressers and restaurant owners are frequently assailed by extortionists, who typically threaten arson attacks or to cut off the ears or fingers of spouses or children.
When the ships were attacked the Israelis cut off all communications and we haven't heard from them since.
