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Both Powers and Leonard, as well as Daniel Steiner '54, the University's general counsel, are quick to point out that for an employer of Harvard's size--11,000 employees--12, or 30, or 40 complaints is a very small number: "de minimis," Leonard says. They point to the...
Other lawyers boggled at the complicated-and time-consuming-procedures outlined in ten pages of instructions. Someone in the department calculated that if the study were to last a year, it would cost Justice 66,000 man-hours, or $534,000. CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid was amused by a time...
Sir: SCENE six: Switched-on, Texas-born ex-Genius Donald Carroll, 25, looms in corner of Scene 3, glooms over trendy TIME exposure (tucked inside Chelsea football program) looking for minimis-takes. Spots Belgrade Square in map of Belgravia. Grins cheerily. End of scene.
"An additional bother of that kind is de minimis,"-smiled the bald-headed chairman of the AEC. The newsreel men doused their floodliehts. Referring only occasionally to some notes, Lilienthal made his statement.
But when the case reached the Supreme Court, the genie suddenly grew to enormous size. The Court held that Judge Picard was wrong, that all makeready and walking time on company property had to be paid for. Suddenly, the genie of portal-to-portal pay hovered, mountain high, not only...