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...every Van Gogh owner wants to believe his painting is worth $50 million and will not let it off the wall if insured for less. Even there, the problem is compounded by the auction houses: when consulted on insurance values or by the IRS, they tend to stick the maximum imaginable price on a painting to maintain the image of its market value and tempt the owner to sell...
...someone with no other income, Social Security benefits are shamefully low. The maximum retirement benefit is only $6492 per year. And wealthy retirees are far more likely to receive this amount...
State law sets the maximum amount of THMs at 100 parts per billion, but over the past year, the level in Cambridge's water ranged between...
...1980s the minimum wage has really lived up to its name. Since it was last raised to $3.35 an hour in 1981, inflation has eroded its purchasing power by 27%. Meanwhile, the Reagan era became famous for skyrocketing maximum wages as greed became fashionable throughout the land. Frustrated by Congress's repeated failures to improve the national standard for the lowest- paid employees, eleven states set higher minimums of their own. Even fast- food chains often find themselves bidding $6 an hour and up for workers who scoff at the minimum wage as "chump change...
Some committee members said that although many council members want to preserve the status quo of maximum choice in house assignment, they sense that council leaders are pressing for non-ordered choice out of political desperation, and a conviction that the council will gain if it appears to have won a compromise with the dean...