Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...M.I.T. students who built a battery-driven car with a maximum speed of 90 miles per hour demonstrated the car yesterday at M.I.T...
...personal zeal for the principle of integration, but shifted the responsibility to the courts. Nixon's ambiguous thinking, as read by Press Secretary Ron Ziegler: "The President feels that in the efforts to eliminate, according to the mandate of the court, the dual school system to the maximum degree possible, we should not use busing, and also, to the maximum degree possible, it is the feeling that we should do everything to preserve the neighborhood school system, to allow children to go to the closest school in their neighborhood...
Seven officers were charged under an 1866 law (maximum penalty: one year in prison, $1,000 fine) that forbids public officials to inflict summary punishment. The eighth was accused of perjury for denying that he had struck anyone. All eight policemen have since been tried and acquitted. The eight radicals, charged with violating as well as conspiring to violate the far stiffer antiriot law, represented virtually every brand of insurgency that challenged U.S. politics in the 1960s. Tom Hayden and Rennie Davis were among the founders of Students for a Democratic Society. Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin typified the anarchistic...
...usual advocacy of strong state and local government, Nixon asked Congress to set nationwide federal standards for air and water purity. Reason: Pollution is "no respecter of political boundaries." He also proposed faster federal legal procedures to penalize industrial and municipal polluters, set fines for persistent offenders at a maximum $10,000 a day, and called for new power to obtain court injunctions forcing polluters to stop operations completely...
...five others-David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin-now face maximum sentences of five years in prison...