Word: maximum
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...Allowing companies to set their own maximum pollution levels unless the state agency objected within seven days. If no response from the state is forthcoming (if, for example, it took a while for the letter merely to reach the appropriate desk) the emissions permit would automatically be changed to the companies' levels...
...offering its own high-powered credit card to boost sales of its products and grab a share of the $485 billion market for plastic money. The auto giant said holders of its new GM MasterCard would earn 5% rebates on purchases made with the card, up to a maximum of $500 a year or $3,500 over seven years. Card-holders could apply the rebates toward the lease or purchase of new GM cars and trucks -- except for the hot-selling Saturn, which has never offered price verage of about 18%. Robertson estimates that the card's features will attract...
...netted 650 pornographic videos. So far, police believe that they have identified at least one Exeter student in a video. Last Wednesday a federal grand jury indicted Bateman on 38 counts of violating the prohibition against shipping child pornography through the U.S. mail. If convicted, he faces a maximum of life in prison and $9.5 million in fines. Mortified school officials promptly fired Bateman from his post as chair of the drama department and began fielding furious calls from alumni and donors as well as parents. Full room, board and tuition at Exeter costs more than $15,000 a year...
...Olympic trials, backstroker David Berkoff set a new world record in the 100-m race by swimming more than two-thirds of the first 50 m underwater using the dolphin kick. Today nearly everyone employs the maneuver, which cuts drag, but only for 15 m, the maximum allowed by newly set rules...
...preparation for Barcelona, German hammer thrower Heinz Weis, with his trainer and a biomechanist, have been poring over video data on Yuri Sedykh, the Soviet thrower who set a world record in 1986 that still stands. One element of Sedykh's success, they believe, was his ability to generate maximum power by keeping both feet on the ground as long as possible during the three or four preparatory spins. Scientists at the U.S. aquatic center, working with swimming coaches, have suggested changes to American backstroker Janie Wagstaff and freestyler Matt Biondi in their underwater pulling patterns. Biondi was urged...