Word: maximum
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CASTRO. Though Castro is still alive, it is not because the CIA did not consider various ways of doing him in. The design on the "maximum leader's" life burgeoned over a span of some two years into a corpus of schemes. As best the principals remember, the idea first emerged in the late spring or early summer of 1960 as a simple, even simple-minded plot to poison Castro's food or slip him a poisoned cigar. By some accounts, the notion originated with a senior officer in the agency's Western Hemisphere division whose ideas...
Since 1971, the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recommended, but barely enforced, a maximum of 90 decibels-the sound of a heavy truck-throughout an eight-hour workday. OSHA wants to keep to that level. The Environmental Protection Agency and the labor unions want the limit reduced to 85, the din of a busy street. Many industries are strongly opposed to such regulation and claim it would be ruinous. The noise level now registers about 105 decibels next to the looms in a textile mill, and 115 close to an automobile factory...
...existing laws are one way to improve the quality of care for nursing-home residents. I support these moves. But I think we must also confront a more fundamental question: Will any amount of regulation make a difference in a field dominated by those whose primary motivation is maximum profits...
...Gandhi and her late father, Jawaharlal Nehru, went to court and charged that Mrs. Gandhi and her staff, in violation of India's equivalent of the U.S.'s Hatch Act, had allowed government officials to campaign for her and had spent more than the allowed maximum...
While organized white-water racing is an exciting, dangerous sport still in its infancy-the first U.S. championships were held in 1958-the great majority of canoeists are typically unexercised Americans who seek a maximum of relaxation with a minimum of risk. Though the hundreds of canoeing clubs in the U.S. schedule an increasing number of races, drifting trips and other mass events, the average weekend canoeist seems to be an independent soul who prefers to stay far from the paddling crowd. Says Dave Carleson, who manufactures, rents and sells canoes in Portland, Ore.: "Most people want to enjoy...