Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rates are paid as an increment to a base hourly wage, and piece rates alone generally produce low earnings. (Testimony before the 1969 Senate Sub-committee on Migratory Labor indicated that only 10-25 per cent of all farmworkers worked on a piece rate basis and that, at a maximum, a worker might earn 50 per cent above the hourly wage by piece rate.) Second, because piece rates are available only at harvest a laborer must follow the crop in order to maximize piece rate earnings. Third, weather and crop conditions must be excellent in order for a worker...
...very top, apparently, is there total honesty. But crackdowns have begun. Wealthy Businessman Hussein Hamadanian was recently arrested by the secret police for embezzling from one of his companies and is awaiting trial. He faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years and may well receive the maximum penalty as a warning to others...
Meanwhile, The Devil played in Memphis, where Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry Parrish moved to indict everyone he could who was connected with the film. The federal offense charged: conspiracy to transport obscene materials across state lines, which carries a five-year maximum sentence. Parrish located Spelvin in Maine and tried to have her brought to Memphis for trial. Though she had never been in Tennessee, Maine Civil Liberties Union lawyers were unable to fight off Parrish's long-arm grab. So the celebrated porn actress came at last to Memphis. "Well," she said after being arraigned, "the 50th anniversary...
Furthermore, Burton S. Dreben, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has said he anticipates an additional 10 per cent decrease in the number of graduate students in residence, to bring the total level down to between 2100 and 2200, the maximum number of students the GSAS says it can afford...
...Council voted on Monday night to drop the ceiling on development in the area from unlimited heigh limitations to a 35-foot maximum. That rezoning resolution, however, must pass on one more reading before...