Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memo observed that no Negro had emerged since Martin Luther King to speak for the black community. Rather than "putting all our eggs in one basket," Bond urged blacks to enter as many favorite sons and daughters as possible in the pre-convention primaries. This would draw out a maximum number of black voters, who could elect as many as 1,200 delegates to the Democratic convention. If the balloting is close, blacks will hold the balance of power and be able to win concessions from the Democratic candidate. Wrote Bond: "Putting black people in the federal bureaucracy is more...
...main thing now, though, is to end the immediate monetary crisis and start negotiations for fundamental reform-which can be done only if the U.S. shows some give on the surcharge. The salutary shock effects of Nixon's moves have by now had their maximum impact, and it is urgent to get at least the outlines of an agreement soon. Otherwise, the momentum for reform that has been built up will dissipate, and the world will lose its best chance so far to get a more rational financial system...
DESTROY EVERY AMERICAN BASTILLE BUILT BEFORE 1900. These gray, gloomy, antiquated maximum-security fortresses -Ohio State Penitentiary, for instance, opened in 1834-remain the principal repositories of the nation's convicted criminals. Embezzlers live cell by cell with rapists, first offenders with incorrigibles. Although the cost would be enormous, the great pens should be replaced by a wide variety of institutions: some for minimum-security risks, some for medium security, others for the 10% to 20% of prisoners who are regarded as dangerous or violent. No institution should house more than 500 inmates...
...much cash the magazine and its many offshoots have earned for Hugh Hefner. The answer came last week as Playboy Enterprises, Inc. prepared to make its first public stock offering and filed required financial statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The underwriter, Loeb, Rhoades & Co., set a "maximum offering price" of $25, meaning that the stock will probably go on the market in November for that amount or slightly less. If it is close to $25, Playboy's creator and chief stockholder will have a paper worth of about $168 million. That makes Hefner...
...group's proposal would cut the maximum rate of profit for landlords in half, invalidate previous rent increases based on old profit standard, and prohibit rent increases or evictions where code violations exist (unless caused by tenants...