Word: maximum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Civil war historian/baseball guru William E. Gienapp's seminar on the American pastime? Maximum enrollment: 20. Newly-recruited Northwestern University professor Jane Mansbridge's class on race, gender and politics? Just...
...will only deepen the mystery of who could have done such a thing. It will also allow the legal wrangling to begin. Aviation disaster lawyers say that if investigators cannot determine the precise cause of the crash, victims' families will be unable to collect more than the $75,000 maximum liability permitted under Warsaw Convention rules governing air travel. A finding of mechanical failure would open the way to much larger settlements, as would solid evidence of a bombing--if lawyers can then prove that TWA's security measures were lax. The 225 families that settled with Pan Am over...
...first glance, the selection makes sense. As the biggest movie of the summer, it would resonate with the maximum number of voters. Normal folk buying tickets to the PG-13 film (no sex, please, we're the Doles) and indulging in Goobers and popcorn makes for an excellent photo-op. Culturally clueless--his favorite entertainers, Glenn Miller and John Wayne, are dead--Dole was taken to task after his first Hollywood "nightmares-of-depravity" speech for criticizing movies he hadn't seen and music he hadn't heard. Now that he was planning to do a back flip with...
...tapings are the way to go for maximum star potential. They're free and their tickets (for the most part) are easily obtainable. Just call up the station of your favorite show (i.e., ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, WB...) and show up at the studio on the day of. You'll probably bump into sitcom stars in adjoining sound stages on your way to the bathroom. (I never knew that Christina Applegate, Kelly Bundy on Fox's "Married With Children," wore glasses.) Even better are talk shows and game shows, where they actually pay you to come and hoot and holler...
...welfare as we know it--abandoning a system that focuses on eligibility and checkwriting in favor of one that encourages work at decent wages. On Tuesday, Congress sent the president a welfare reform bill that requires recipients to find jobs within two years and sets a strict five-year maximum for lifetime welfare receipt...