Word: maximum
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Altruism -- his life for the many? No way. Loyalty to his boss, who is the real culprit? Quit kidding. Joey sees talking the would-be terrorist out of mass murder as the maximum test of his salesmanship. In his time he has cut the sticker price and upped the trade-in allowance on everything but death. He cannot resist the opportunity to do this ultimate deal. Besides, Larry is his kind of customer, infinitely suggestible, infinitely distractible...
...yourselves. We need organization to have fun. We need to be able to whip out our appointment books and pencil in "FUN--9:51 p.m. to 12:37 a.m." We need to be able to calculate the optimal factor allocation of work and play in order to achieve maximum efficiency...
...donations were for $1,000, the maximum allowed each year under state law. The total includes checks sent to Silber's campaign by family members of the stockholders and directors who live at the same address...
...first prominent dissenters was Arthur Hertzberg, professor of religion at Dartmouth College. When Menachem Begin came to power in 1977, says Hertzberg, American Jews "tried to pretend to themselves that the Likud were a bunch of tough-minded businessmen like their uncles who asked for the maximum price and would settle eventually for something less -- but higher than they'd get otherwise." But after years of no progress toward settling the Palestinian question, a more disturbing realization has set in. Says Hertzberg: "Now we are facing the fact that these Likud fellows -- Begin and Shamir and ((Ariel)) Sharon and their...
...more like a mass of moving clouds than a smooth reflecting mirror. The OTH radar overcomes this problem by using computer power: the software enables technicians to chart constantly the intensity and thickness of the ionosphere, telling operators where conditions are best and which radio frequencies to use for maximum performance...