Word: minimum
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...survey of foreign students also described the financial problems of many couples at Harvard. Scholarships from the Graduate School are based on the minimum needs of a single student, whether or not he has dependents. Married foreign students receive no special consideration even though their wives cannot work and their initial expenses are usually greater than those of local students...
...break in the overcast. Finally, its pilot gave up and informed the control tower and his passengers that he was making for Taiwan, 1,300 miles to the southwest. At that moment, the visibility momentarily increased to five-eighths of a mile at the airport, just above the minimum safety standard, and the pilot elected to land instead...
...send a mission to the U.N.-tasks that frequently exhaust both their finances and talent. Occasionally a new nation admits that it just cannot afford the overhead; although it is a U.N. member, Gambia has no U.N. mission, told the Assembly it might not be able to afford the minimum annual U.N. club fee of $40,000. The Maldive Islands near Ceylon are so poor that the U.N. must forward their mail through the Maldivian Philatelic Agency, located in Manhattan down the street from Macy's. Rwanda President Gregoire Kayibanda's chief government handicap is even more serious...
Meany said that he could not express his true feelings about the council-which is also advising the President on the minimum-wage bill-because "there are ladies present...
Dividing Baby? Like King Solomon's legendary decision ordering the baby divided between the contending women, this would be no solution at all. The French faction would not think of accepting it without being guaranteed equal facilities-an item estimated to cost a minimum of $500 million. Even if this were miraculously arranged, the massive international prestige of Louvain would be maimed. Though both the Flemish-and French-speaking faculties of the university are equally eminent, most of the 2,000 foreign students (out of a total enrollment of 20,000) speak French rather than Flemish...