Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President who is both competent and inspirational, who could be incisive in his analysis of the major problems of our nation, who could arouse support for the solution of those problems among a broad base of American citizens. I'd like to arrive at a maximum degree of harmony...
Carter was already thinking beyond his nomination. His staff and party strategists were dividing up the nation into 13 "A" states, which will get maximum effort as critical to his election, and an undisclosed number of states in three other categories: "B," requiring slightly less attention; "C," considered hopelessly lost, and "D," rated as relatively safe. The latter include much of the South, as well as Massachusetts and Minnesota...
...Carter had urged legislation now to break up large oil companies (see BUSINESS). Carter had stopped short of that. The platform noted the lack of a "free, competitive market for crude oil in the U.S." It supported new Government restrictions "when competition inadequate to insure free markets and maximum benefit to American consumers exists...
...stick figure on a blue background representing a man in a wheelchair, is posted on the memorial and has been appearing on a growing number of buildings around the U.S. Wherever it appears, the symbol means that the structure has been built or remodeled so that ramps (with a maximum grade of 8.3%) are in place at stairs or curbs, doors are wide enough (at least 32 in.), knobs, buttons or drinking fountains are within reach of the wheelchairbound, and toilets and urinals are at convenient heights...
...before Novelist Connell has had a chance to display his characteristic talent for getting a maximum of feeling and perception from a minimum of words. At a time when books about women as victims appear with numbing regularity, Double Honeymoon seems a skillful unpretentious throwback to the tradition of woman as seducer - a kind of Blue Angel with button-down wings...