Word: maximum
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...should be able to collect. Except in a few states, the size of the payments is determined not by need or number of dependents, but by how much a person earned on his last job. In New York, for example, anyone who averaged $189 or more weekly gets the maximum: $95 per week. If he earned less than $189, he gets roughly half his previous pay. Nationwide, according to the Labor Department, the tax-free payments average $61 per week, which comes out to 40% of the worker's previous take-home pay. Understandably, many families cannot scrape...
...unpaved area in the city: the Green, a glass walled lawn with trees The longest lines in the city form every day to look in at it. Living quarters are huge sleeping halls marked off with paint into individual spaces eight feet by twelve feet is the maximum allowable by law for single persons...
...give up under the pressure of the chant. He is no committed revolutionary. When Sam finally addresses the opaque petition window, his ominous "petition for more space" becomes a simple request to increase his sleeping area by one foot in width and one foot in length to the maximum allowed by law. He complains, "I expend so much physical and psychic energy pushing against people and limits that I am always too tired to do quickly the things I need and want to do." The window replies. "True for everyone, Petition denied...
Reyes figures if he can last another two weeks, grinding out about four pages a day (his maximum output so far), he will have something academically competent if not brilliant to show for his work here. He has a sort of "mystical" confidence that he'll finish the thesis on time, but he is often frustrated these days that so many friends ask how it's coming. He does not like playing the role of the bleary-eyed thesis writer talking about his opus...
...major new opportunity lies in preparing students for careers in public service. And in the end, the performance of our public institutions will depend much more on the quality of their leaders than on the sophistication of their technical staffs. As a result, if Harvard is to make the maximum contribution to public life, we must devote our energies toward educating those who will occupy positions of authority in public institutions...