Word: maximum
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...result is that satellites, power stations and astronauts can be better warned and protected." Budget concerns, however, may force NASA to pull the plug on the satellite. Thompson says they couldn't have picked a worse time to flick the switch: The sun is about to go into solar maximum, its most violent period ? and the most scientifically useful...
That's the good news. The bad news is that the Cali dons are thought to be running their networks from prison. Last spring Serrano ordered his men to go into the maximum-security wing of La Picota prison in Bogota because top Cali dons MIGUEL and GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ OREJUELA were thought to be plotting a jail break. The police found evidence they had been chatting away with their aides via cell phones, hard lines, fax and the Internet. Recently, DEA officials say, the cnp raided a group of private telecommunications switching centers that the cartel leaders had organized...
...Right now that's tied up in the Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill," she said, but added the administration is pushing to raise the maximum grant to $3,000, an 11 percent increase...
...weeks ago. (As a Washington native, I'm entitled to this sort of blatant name-dropping.) The President was announcing his new framework for Internet commerce to a crowd of industry executives and lobbyists in the ornate East Room. As always, he was late. Packing in the maximum number of constituents left only a few square feet for the press pool. As we waited for the President and his entourage to make an entrance, the journalists jostled for a good view of the podium...
...peace were accompanied by painful economic downturns. But the 1950s radically parted with that tradition as a result of massive federal intervention and the fact that the U.S. emerged physically unscathed, and rich, from history's most destructive war. Government helped: the Employment Act of 1946 (promoting maximum employment and production), the G.I. Bill (giving veterans financial aid to return to school) and the Federal Aid Highway Act (building highways everywhere) eased the transition to a peacetime economy...