Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nomination, and he prepared for it with a deft combination of openness and secrecy: he was demonstrably open to advice, but extremely secretive about his thinking as it evolved. As a Ford aide put it, in splendidly technocratic jargon: "His decision-making process was one of maximum input, zero feedback...
...case, the Japanese reversed plans to build their own antisubmarine patrol planes, and instead decided to study the Lockheed P-3C Orion. If the cash pocketed by Tanaka can be tied to these decisions, Tanaka will almost surely be charged with bribery, a serious offense opening him to a maximum prison sentence of 1 5 years...
...receive-and reward-intense loyalty. Wages and benefits are determined by seniority; a man or woman who has been with a company for 30 years makes, on the average, four times as much as a newly hired worker, though both may do the same job. Result: minimum unemployment and maximum morale year after year...
...order that people may have the maximum scope to decide for themselves the kind of lives they will lead, they must be prepared to accept certain restraints, and this does not only apply to individuals. Organizations such as universities and private enterprise can exercise their freedom only if others are prepared to recognize and respect their right...
...privileges, in the form of some of the world's highest income taxes; that industrial worker who earns $11,250, for instance, must give the taxman $4,125. Levies on the half-million self-employed Swedes-professionals, farmers, intellectuals and small businessmen-are even more onerous. The maximum tax rate is supposed to be 85%, but in one recent, celebrated case involving Astrid Lindgren, a writer of children's books, the taxman threatened to take 102% of her royalty earnings...