Word: maximum
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Jimmy Carter's Justice Department could have chosen not to prosecute the now retired ambassador at all or, at the opposite extreme, to charge him with two felony counts of perjury, each carrying a maximum five-year prison sentence and a $2,000 fine. The department took a middle course, charging the 64-year-old Helms with two misdemeanor counts of failing to answer senatorial questions "fully, completely and accurately." The penalty on each count is 30 days to a year in jail and a fine...
...kids move through the countless metal doors. Past the place where visitors have the insides of their shoes checked for contraband, past the detectors, the armed guard in the tower, the massive barbed-wire topped wall. To the right is the maximum end, where brutal conditions recently precipitated yet another hunger strike by inmates. Reach-Out participants head to the left, to what, in a maximum security prison, is euphemistically known as the "minimum" end because prisoners are not locked in their cells all day and prevented from taking part in programs. (Euphemism has taken hold in the prison bureaucracy...
...called double indexing, which would eventually account for half of the system's projected deficit. This problem was the unintended result of a 1972 law that tied increases in benefits ?both those being paid now and those that will be paid hi the future?to inflation. Below the maximum benefit (currently $460 per month), the amount a worker will receive from Social Security when he retires increases as his salary rises. Since pay hikes partly reflect inflation, the measure thus inadvertently double-indexed future benefit levels for these workers?about 86% of the people covered by Social Security?...
...workers for nonprofit organizations). The move would have increased the system's revenues by as much as $4 billion a year. It was opposed in particular by federal workers, who are already covered by a retirement program that pays them pensions up to four times Social Security's maximum benefit of $460 a month...
...model, the Concord. It is a luxury compact that, with options, sells for as much as $5,200?roughly comparable to the price of the fast-selling subcompacts, Honda's Accord and Volkswagen's Rabbit. Meyers believes AMC must now focus its sales push on the Concord to the maximum. He told TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold a bit hyperbolically: "Concord is a runaway success; we will make 100,000. In the past we got drunk on success and started chasing something else. We're not going to make that mistake with Concord...