Word: maximum
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...their grades plummeted to unexplored depths, Crimson reporters applied "maximum force" to coverage of the presidential search committee for ten months. During those long months, several grusome details were withheld from the pages of the daily newspaper to protect the lives and reputations of innocent people. In the interest of full disclosure, The Crimson presents this special presidential search edition of The Reporters' Notebook...
...this is far from the highlight of the Classics' schedule, when the team boards a bus, does not pass go and goes directly to jail--to two jails, actually, Concord and Walpole, the latter of which is a maximum security facility...
...Whenever I drive home to Pennsylvania, I always pass a maximum security prison," Winkler said, who played his first prison game last week at Walpole. "I've always wondered what it would be like to go inside. Now I finally got the chance...
California's voters set the cuts in motion last November by narrowly passing Proposition 140, a ballot initiative that hit legislators with a double whammy: it not only decreed maximum terms of six years for assemblymen and eight for senators, but more immediately ordered a cut of nearly 40% in the $190 million legislative operating budget. Last week, as a wave of mass layoffs was announced, the senate shed 200 of its nearly 1,000 employees, and the assembly dropped 440 of its staff of 1,500. Gone, along with clerks and secretaries, were some 300 policy experts; 15 subcommittees...
...generals talk less in terms of time than of conditions. The primary one is that a land offensive should be launched only when bombing has softened the Iraqi defenses to the maximum extent possible. There is agreement that, as one Congressman emerging from the Cheney-Powell briefing said, "we're still some distance from achieving the necessary kill level of tanks and artillery." But how soon might that point be reached? That, says General Norman Schwarzkopf, top allied commander in the gulf, involves a "compendium of actual results, measurable results, estimated results, anecdotal reports and gut feel...