Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab robes instead of his customary military uniform, Numeiry damned the killers in terms designed to have maximum emotional impact on his people. Alluding to the Sudanese custom of slitting an animal's throat when butchering it for a feast, he said that the commandos had "slaughtered their hostages like goats." Then, he added, they had left their corpses "to rot" for more than one day (an insult to the Moslem practice of burying the dead within 24 hours). Sudanese law provides for capital punishment in first-degree murder cases, but Middle East observers think that heavy prison sentences...
Much of Panama's economic mess is attributable to Torrijos. A mercurial figure of 43, Torrijos has muzzled the press and banned all political parties. Though he allows a figurehead President to sign decrees, he has had himself invested as "maximum leader of the revolution" for another six years. A much ballyhooed scheme to grow sugar cane in the Veraguas province of west-central Panama has failed miserably because the land there is too dry for sugar production. On the other hand, a new labor code that increases workers' benefits has elevated costs and lowered productivity to such...
Allende was properly flabbergasted. The vote surpassed the 36.2% that he himself had received when elected President in 1970, and it was three points above the 40% maximum predicted by the most optimistic Popular Unity pundits. What had happened? For one thing, the opposition had wrongly counted on defeating Allende by emphasizing Chile's economic problems-inflation and consumer-goods shortages-for Allende's regime has actually increased the purchasing power of many working-class families. In addition, the electorate grew 16.6% through the enfranchisement of several previously barred groups-18-year-olds, illiterates and the blind...
...restrictions on the property is that a maximum of 55 homesites be constructed. The Vineyard Open Land Foundation, an organization the College consulted, recommended several years ago that only 34 homesites be built...
...outraged opinion, salted with quotes from Margaret Mead, D.H. Lawrence and Dr. Benjamin Spock, condemning in detail each one of the film's 62 minutes. The film's heroine, he noted, demonstrated a "swordswal-lower's fascinating faculty for fellatio," and camera angles were "directed toward maximum exposure...during the gymnastics, gyrations, bobbing, trundling, surging, ebb and flowing, eddying, moaning, groaning and sighing, all with ebullience and gusto...