Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also have called attention to those revolutionaries rotting in Cuban prisons. I think, for example, of Major Huber Matos, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro in the guerilla movement, who has been 18 years--yes, 18 years--in jail, for the sole crime of expressing disagreement with the Maximum Lider, and who spent a considerable period of time in solitary confinement for refusing to wear the obnoxious yellow jackets that Castro has decreed such prisoners should wear--a story which was documented last year by "Worldview," a liberal Christian magazine. And one could express solidarity, too, with Alexander Ginzburg...
...have turned down a 1977 U.S. government offer of $27.5 million in economic assistance, a loan with attached human rights concessions. In 1976, the U.S. Congress, over the opposition of former President Gerald R. Ford, voted to stop all military assistance to Chile and curtailed economic assistance to a maximum of $27.5 million for the fiscal year 1977. In May of the same year, William Simon, then secretary of the Treasury, visited Chile and "congratulated Pinochet for bringing 'economic freedom' to Chile," Isabel Letelier and Moffitt write in their report. They add, "This positive assessment by a prominent Wall Street...
Financing big solar units for houses has been a problem, but increasing numbers of banks and mortgage lenders now offer solar loans. The New England Merchants National Bank of Boston recently introduced a maximum $10,000, low-interest Energy Saver's Loan, and the San Diego Federal Savings and Loan Association offers low down-payment mortgages for new houses that use some form of solar power. The Bank of America has made about 2,000 loans, totaling more than $3 million, on its solar financing program, almost all of them in California, where Governor Jerry Brown's ambitious...
Congress has begun to show willingness to back solar development projects. Eight solar energy bills were introduced this year, including proposals for low-interest equipment loans, start-up assistance for small solar firms, and requirements that federal facilities use the maximum amount of solar power. Due to a lack of support from either OED or President Carter, however, the total federal solar energy budget is seven times less than that granted for nuclear power development...
...seven finalists, selected from an original group of 30, each delivered a literary or oratorical selection of a maximum of five minutes in Latin, Greek or English...