Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote would have been a perfect 100 to 0, but Democrat Max Baucus of Montana, an ardent O'Connor supporter, had to return to his home state just before the vote...
...first 78 miles of its run to Lyon, it traveled the French National Railroads' regular tracks at conventional speed (max: 100 m.p.h.). In the comfortable, soundproofed cars, the only noises were the quiet hiss of air conditioning, the strains of Chopin-and the popping of champagne corks. Then, at Saint-Floren-tin, came the announcement: "We are entering the new section of track. Our speed will be 260 kilometers [162 miles] per hour...
...Americans have been left out. Some who tried to start out in the '70s began to suspect that they were operating under some vast cultural misunderstanding. In a way, they were. Owning a house-a home, "the most lyrical of American symbols," Max Lerner once called it-began generations ago as one of the most basic aspirations. It was merely a hope then, not a sure thing. But some time during the long suburban idyll of the postwar years, the idea of owning a house came to harden into a kind of entitlement, a right, an inevitability. The baby...
...Max Peterson, chief of the U.S. Forest Service, earns $50,112.50 a year. So does Associate Chief Douglas Leisz. So, in fact, do the five deputy chiefs below Leisz, the eight associate deputy chiefs below them, and almost half of the 35 staff directors below the associate deputy chiefs. In all, 177 people at the Forest Service are at that salary level. Says Kenneth Rashid, a Consumer Product Safety Commission official: "Only a committed Marxist could love a system where everybody makes the same amount of money. It simply stifles ambition and creativity and hard work...
...courtroom door swings open to the beat of music that sounds like a cross between . the themes from Hollywood Squares and Mission: Impossible. In stride Plaintiffs Katharina and Max Binder, the angry owners of Binder's Scissor Styling. Next come the defendants, Ray Cason and his daughter Michelle, 12. At issue: $43 that Cason refused to pay the Binders for a permanent that Michelle got in their salon one afternoon. Cason claimed that the permanent failed to hold up through Michelle's birthday party that evening...