Word: maximum
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...will take special training in American cities. In an effort to save itself the high social costs-and the inestimable human ones-that are now taking their toll in the U.S., the government of President Georges Pompidou has taken one other step. It has introduced a bill increasing the maximum sentence for drug peddling from five to 20 years...
...Most scientists agree that there is a 50% chance that adults exposed to 450 rems* of radiation will die. Below about 50 rems, no visible damage has been measured. With little empirical evidence, the AEC has adopted 500 millirems (one millirem is one-thousandth of a rem) as the maximum radiation that the general public can be safely exposed to in one year. That is a very small amount. By comparison, the sun and other natural radiation sources expose the average individual to about 100 millirems each year. A single chest X ray can double the natural dose...
Cleveland L. Sellers, a first-year Ed School student, faces two charges-rioting and inciting to riot-each carrying a ten-year maximum sentence. Abernathy faces identical charges, stemming from a strike of hospital workers in Charleston...
...three squads in Calley's platoon on March 16, 1968. He was charged last week with committing, with intent to murder, "an assault upon a group of 30 Vietnamese nationals, more or less, by shooting at them with an M-16 rifle." If convicted, he would face a maximum penalty of 20 years at hard labor...
...denials, Bernadette was convicted on four counts. Freed on $600 bail, she plans to begin appealing the verdict in February-a process that could eventually take her case to Britain's House of Lords. If the appeal fails, her punishment will be six months in jail-half the maximum sentence...