On the other hand, CUSP's policy of individual membership for everyone without subsidy may be less oriented towards equity.
"We are on the cusp of a major policy reformulation led by the baby boomers," Ms. Moen argued, hopefully.
President Obama is on the cusp of a fateful policy decision.
[ 14- 17] At the time of this study, dentistry was on the cusp of this radical policy change.
Are we on the cusp of glory in Rio because Swimming Australia now has a solid policy on tweeting, or is there something more at work?
Now, a young, well-traveled, multilingual foreign-policy scholar, Parag Khanna, suggests in "The Second World" that we are on the cusp of a new new world order — "a multipolar and multicivilizational world of three distinct superpowers competing on a planet of shrinking resources".
It's a nation on the cusp of outlawing homosexuality, but enforcing a "don't ask, don't tell" policy, with numerous celebrities in the public eye out-gaying anyone the US could throw at them.
Dame Kate Barker, who carried out a review of housing supply for Gordon Brown, told the Lords economic affairs committee in December, "I do feel uncomfortable about a set of policies that are designed to be supportive of people who are just on the cusp of being able to buy, and need nudging over the edge".
But Dame Kate Barker, a housing market expert, told the House of Lords economic affairs committee on Tuesday: "I do feel uncomfortable about a set of policies that are designed to be supportive of people who are just on the cusp of being able to buy, and need nudging over the edge.
The fact is, every policy President Obama pursued in 2009 has either been passed by Congress, or is on the cusp of becoming reality.
