Word: maximum
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...found guilty of the forgery charge, Kuan and Loh could have been sentenced to a maximum of five years in state prison...
Also, critics of the Bush plan, like the American Council on Higher Education, point out that the administration intends to keep the maximum Pell Grant at $2300 for the third straight year, resulting in an overall nine percent decrease in purchasing power for students...
Tickets for the Harvard men's hockey team's home games against Vermont and RPI will go on sale at 9 a.m. at the Harvard Ticket Office in the basement of Harvard Hall. Students may buy a maximum of two tickets for each game by bringing coupons 10 and 11 with them...
...from clear that either side is ready to abandon its maximum demands. Says Lawrence Schlemmer, director of Johannesburg's Center for Policy Studies: "What normally precipitates conflict resolution is a need to limit damage." But South Africa is not in a desperate crisis, and neither the government nor the A.N.C. is feeling enough pressure to make concessions on vital issues...
Even if Barry is convicted on the misdemeanor charge of drug possession, he could continue to hold office if he is sentenced to less than the one-year maximum term. And precedent exists for the jailhouse election of a municipal official. In 1903 Boston's four-time mayor, James Michael Curley, was elected alderman from jail. In fact, an us-against-them argument could appeal to Barry's populist base in a city fractured along racial and class lines...