Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solve the problems, the coal companies have had to put a new emphasis on mechanization and strip mining. Using giant shovels, the companies can peel back the earth and gouge out the underlying coal with a minimum of workers and a maximum of productivity. Stripping, mainly in Appalachia, now accounts for about half of all U.S. coal production, and the proportion is likely to rise. All the major companies have lately bought or leased rights to hundreds of millions of tons of coal that lie close under the plains of the Dakotas and Montana, the semidesert of New Mexico...
...High. KHS is a dungeon-like turn of the century building in which 650 students get a claustrophobic secondary education in stagnant, highschool-green classrooms of World War Two vintage. KHS was originally designed to hold approximately 450 students, and for the last 15 years has handily superceded that maximum figure...
...lower wage increases among University employees are a result of the job-grading system at Harvard which establishes guidelines for maximum salaries, a Harvard administrative assistant said yesterday...
With a per capita annual income estimated at $125, Nigeria needs all the oil and gas revenues it can get. But Gowon has no intention of rushing the oil bonanza. To husband reserves, he is limiting production increases to the 1% per month maximum he decided was prudent long before the energy crunch. Moreover, the oil revenues give Gowon a strong hand in keeping the twelve states in line. By doling out profits to all, he keeps a firm grip on the purse strings and the pattern of economic growth...
...Bankers Trust Co. voted more than 10% of the stock of the American Broadcasting Co. and just under 10% of the stock of Metromedia. Banks have been so deeply into broadcasting that in 1972 the FCC had to liberalize its rules to increase, from 1% to 5%, their maximum legal share of ownership of more than one major broadcasting company. Otherwise, the banks would have had to sell $976 million in the stock of 25 broadcasting companies, a move that might well have depressed many shares...