Word: minimum
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...illiterate Mexicans and Filipinos. Among them, for example, is Marcos Munoz, who lives in a squalid shack that he calls "something you would not let a dog enter." Another, Manuel Rivera, 52, the father of seven, works ten hours a day when he is not on strike, for the minimum wage of $1.25 an hour. He is a grim man whose only hope is for his children; he feels that the vineyard owners "make an animal out of me. They might as well put a leash...
...geodesic dome is a sphere formed by tetrahedrons--pyramids made of equilateral triangles, the simplest possible shape in three dimensions. This gives the largest possible space to the interior dome with a minimum of surface area surrounding it. It makes a lightweight, easily-assembled, low-cost frame...
...Novikov. Within the overall volume of industrial production, the targets for producer goods will easily be overfulfilled, while those for consumer goods (one quarter of the total) will not be met. The gross agricultural product will have grown by 7% instead of the 70% envisaged. The minimum wage was to have been increased from 27 to 35 rubles a month to 50 to 60 rubles a month; instead it has only recently been raised to 40 to 45 rubles a month ($44.40 to $50). Most serious for the Soviets, for whom cramped accommodation (less than 8 sq. meters of living...
...Princess Margaret (see Social Notes) that brought President Johnson back to Washington last week. But he did not stay long, spent most of the time at his desk. Press Secretary Bill Moyers explained that until year's end the President would keep his public appointments "to the absolute minimum necessary," husbanding his energies for "deliberation, discussion, and a great deal of thinking and study...