Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon Administration pleaded with labor leaders to make a voluntary end to existing strikes in order to help the economy pick up at the maximum possible speed. The most devastating strike under way is the West Coast dock stoppage, now eight weeks old, led by Harry Bridges. It is likely to continue. Bridges wired Nixon that the freeze "favors the rich," and he added: "We are with you in your desire to stop inflation in our country, but it is wrong to pick on the workers, who suffer first and the most from inflation...
Classic Bounds. All pianists have to compromise between force and agility in order to combine maximum sonority with maximum speed. Brendel's playing shows no compromise. He gives most of the credit to Edwin Fischer, the Swiss pianist and teacher who was known as both an intellectual classicist and a keyboard technician. Like Fischer, he is able to play passionately without breaking the bounds of classicism...
...just as difficult was the need to satisfy the conflicting demands of two masters: scientists and the public. NASA's geologists were primarily interested in terrain and rocks, while NASA's public relations men and the television networks wanted to focus on the astronauts themselves for a maximum amount of time. NASA worked out a compromise to appease both scientific inquiry and public curiosity...
...tabloid as "a compact" because it is both small in size and short on space. He argues that afternoon audiences are distracted at home by TV, the kids and household chores. "The evening reader doesn't have all night," he says. "We're attempting to get the maximum amount of information into the minimum amount of space, while providing enough facts to satisfy an intelligent reader." The formula has pulled readers, but the product is uneven. On any given day Today can have the top coverage in town, but on a day-to-day basis it is undependable...
...plans to spend $900 million to build a 789-mile pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez. In a frenzy of competition, oilmen bought leases for $900 million-enough to cover all state expenditures at the 1968 rate for 41 years. Delirious Alaskans were told that when production reached maximum levels, the state would receive $200 million a year in oil royalties and taxes. University of Alaska economists have since increased the estimate to $350 million annually...