Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wooing voters back into the Gaullist camp before the upcoming parliamentary elections take place. The plan promised a 10% tax credit on capital spending for business, an easing of credit and price controls, a $20-per-year hike in old-age pensions, a 2.12% boost in France's minimum wage and subsidies for slum clearance and agricultural development...
...Ivies, and most of the other schools, have argued that the 1.600 rule, which sets minimum academic standards for athletes, robs them of the institutional autonomy over academic matters which is academic matters which is granted them in the NCAA constitution...
...their mistress and her lesbian daughter. The man who has just bought the house accuses the father of causing the tragic result. I, for one, can't figure out how he, as a newcomer on the scene, can make such an accusation. Papatakis presents these events with an absolute minimum of sentimentality; it's just the ugly, brutal story, starkly told, designed to make us shiver...
...however inadequate Goldman's play be, Director Noel Willman has somehow contrived to make is worse. Olde English folk songs ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" etc.) are piped over the loudspeaker after every blackout, and stage movement is held to a static minimum. Unfortunately, radiant Rosemary Harris as the dowdy, embittered Queen looks even better than she did as Ophelia two year ago; while cherubic and smooth-skinned Bruce Scott, late of the Merv Griffin Show, fails to convince anybody that he's Prince John, who, as the text repeatedly states, is the victim of massive acne...
...report also offers a careful year-by-year and state-by-state summary of the party's development in the South, and concludes with several imaginative proposals for governmental action which, in accordance with Republican dogma, would be at the state level. The suggestions include vocational schools and state minimum wage laws for agricultural workers, a shifting of the tax burden from lower-income groups to the region's new industries, and state civil rights laws attacking job discrimination...