Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peace Corps, in keeping with its New Directions policy, announced yesterday the creation of an Office for Minority Affairs designed to provide maximum opportunities for minority groups and women in its programs...
...judge then reappeared and asked the prosecuting attorney, "You don't really need to make a closing argument, do you?" "No," he grinned. Viola then announced Harvard's verdict: conviction on both counts and a maximum sentence...
...Maximum Alert. Violence was not altogether unexpected. Two days before the congressional vote. General Rene Schneider was shot and gravely wounded by a small band of still unidentified terrorists. As he drove to his office along a narrow one-way street, his black Mercedes was suddenly blocked by four vehicles. While one young man smashed the rear window of the Mercedes with a small sledgehammer, another fired eight times at the general with a .45-cal. automatic pistol, and then escaped...
...surgeons worked for 90 minutes to remove three bullets from his chest, neck and forearm. That night he suffered a massive hemorrhage, and the following day remained near death. While police erected roadblocks around Santiago, President Frei placed the 90,000 men of the armed forces and carabineros on maximum alert...
...paramount problems of our time is that we must transcend the old patterns of power politics in which nations sought to exploit every volatile situation for their own advantage or to squeeze the maximum advantage for themselves out of every negotiation...