Word: maximum
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...with little hope for advancement. The nation's prisons are brimming with young blacks convicted of crimes that bring puny financial rewards and huge penalties. A typical convenience-store stickup yields only $402, but armed robbers, once convicted, serve an average of 41 months pumping iron in a tough maximum-security prison. That translates to about 30 days in prison for every stolen dollar, which any M.B.A. knows is an unacceptable balance between profit and risk...
...Harvard University police will be working maximum hours, said Chief Paul E. Johnson, and will be joined and state police officers...
...focus of many teachers' and students ire is a rule limiting all teachers, who work on renewable one-year contracts, to teach a maximum of four years in the program...
Next year, the maximum interest rate on government loans to students will drop from eight to four percent...
...Science Center technician and an Escort Service driver. (It was Matt, incidentally, who, while he was recording Science B-15, used to shake the camera every time E.O. wilson talked about sex.) Favorite class at Harvard was Music 178ar, Ivan Tcherepnin's "Composition in the Digital Electronic Medium." Maximum Rock `n' Roll magazine described his singing on the first Fat Day single as "a really young male or a female with great vocals...