Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...piles of cut fabric ready to move down the line of stitchers. Work tables are separated, and all face in the same direction, making conversation impossible. Of course, you don't talk in a factory--you shout. The noise level in many Boston shops is just below the Federal maximum. For at least an hour after the work-day is over, the women continue shouting about the noise that they still hear...
Otto Kerner, 64, was convicted ot bribery conspiracy, income tax evasion, mail fraud and perjury. He could receive a maximum sentence of 83 years in prison and a fine of $93,000. The verdict stemmed from a dubious race-track stock deal in which Kerner, while Governor, netted $140,000 in profits in exchange for helping a track owner obtain a longer season and permission to expand into harness racing. It represented the conviction not just of a politician...
Last Christmas Chicoine earned a furlough to see his family, whom he is still close to. That only adds to the irony of his status as something of a celebrity at Vermont's maximum-security prison. Only five men now in Windsor have spent more time imprisoned there, and three of them are murderers...
...week 50,000 acres of Aitkin County, some 120 miles north of Minneapolis-St. Paul, were officially chosen as the site of the Minnesota Experimental City. If all goes as planned, MXC, as the city is called for the time being, could be completed in 1985 and have a maximum population...
Ford employees, EPA asserted, had deliberately tampered with 1973 model cars in order to make them seem less polluting than they actually were. In so doing, Ford violated federal clean-air laws. The court found Ford guilty of 350 criminal counts, at the maximum fine of $10,000 for each. Ford did not contest the charges. In fact, the company itself had first reported the tampering to authorities and transferred the four responsible employees out of its testing department. Ford also made a strong pitch for suspension of federal emission standards for 1975 and 1976. President Lee A. lacocca told...