Word: minimum
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...Walter Byers, pointed out that the 1.600 rule is a violation of the NCAA constitution, which states that each institution or conference is responsible for it own workings. Although Harvard's standards for avoiding athletic probation--three C's and one D, or 1.75--are well above the NCAA minimum, the College rightfully reserves the power to lower its probation level in individual cases with extenuating circumstances...
...Febrauary 15 deadline for acceptance of the new National Collegiate Athletic Association rule concerning minimum scholastic standards has passed by without compliance from the Ivy schools. There can be little doubt that the Ivy League Policy Committee was justified in refusing to file notice of compliance, even at the risk of forfeiting the right to compete in NCAA championship events...
...mansion in Cheyenne as a far-right-winger, Hansen has driven through the legislature a herd of programs to which the state G.O.P. was fundamentally opposed. He asked for and got an urban-renewal plan, an increase in the state sales tax and a boost in the state minimum wage from 75? to $1. Under Hansen, appropriations for state programs to combat alcoholism and mental illness jumped by more than 50%. The going has not always been smooth. "My opposition," says Hansen, "seems to forget that this is the 20th century." By the opposition, of course, Hansen means the vociferous...
Undaunted by such practicalities, Cooper has also set up and solved by computer a set of differential equations for curved tunnels that would provide minimum gravity-powered travel time between any two cities on earth. These tunnels would swoop into the ground at steeper angles and penetrate to even greater depths. Though travel times would vary, all would be less than the 42.2 minutes required for straight-line trips...
...finally broken, possibly by next month, the rate of flow may raise that total to 600,000. Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, a member of the Armed Services Committee whose forecasts have proved to be notably accurate in the past, cited that figure last week as the minimum needed...