Word: maximum
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Smith cited one case in which an acquaintance of his received five years in a maximum security prison in Georgia for having oral sex with his wife...
...feed public awareness of an important national issue; but it can also hurt the ecological cause in the long run. With titles like 1001 Ways You Can Heal the Earth and 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth, such publications imply that minimal effort will achieve maximum results...
...income families. As for helping the middle class, the government should act as it did after World War II and offer low-interest mortgages to young families. Beginning in 1944, the Veterans Administration guaranteed 5 million home loans to ex-servicemen with no down payment required and a maximum interest rate of 4%. If something similar were done today, many more families could both buy a house and spend time with the kids. One Gallup poll shows that only 13% of working mothers want to work full time, although 52% of them do so. Often what keeps these mothers...
...Democrats knew they had extracted the maximum political advantage from their stand on higher taxes for the rich when they saw a gloomy Bush on television Tuesday night, suffering through a New England campaign swing during which G.O.P. candidates distanced themselves from his positions. The next day, top congressional Democrats arrived for their daily 8 a.m. meeting in majority leader Richard Gephardt's office. All agreed that pushing for another victory over the President would be counterproductive. "We didn't win everything, but we got most of what we wanted," says Congressman Charles Schumer of New York, who had been...
Shih, Yilmaz and both Partovis all took more than 11 of the three-hour AP exams. According to score results provided by the students, their collective average was more than 4.5 out of a maximum score of five...