Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laboratory that provided the date of 720 million years for the fossils our party found in the Canadian Arctic last summer [Nov. 12] now reports that on rechecking it has found a computational error and that the minimum age of the fossils is 445 million years. But the structural geologic relations indicate that this age is impossibly young: the fossils are almost surely preCambrian. Other tests by different methods are being undertaken. I hope they will resolve the uncertainty about the dates...
...sleazy racetrack tout. But Kiss-of-Death Leonard, as he was beginning to be called, soon found himself in still another dying medium. Radio was moribund, television was thriving and once again Leonard was jobless. He had no compunction about trying his hand at TV scriptwriting. "The minimum price in those days was $550 for a half-hour show," Leonard recalls. "No respectable writer would sell for that, but I would." Leonard was no Paddy Chayefsky, but he was cheap, and in Hollywood cheap is good...
...officer predicted yesterday that PBH will "lobby" in individual neighborhoods for the preservation of the tutoring program. PBH will begin to organize and seek a minimum of 150 student tutors, he said...
...race for the Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland, Moccasin broke so badly that she was ten lengths behind the field by the time she got untangled. She still won the 6½-furlong race by three lengths, repaying her shaken admirers at the rate of 10? on the dollar-the minimum that Kentucky law allows...
...case a local draft board did not consider a four-course curriculum as meeting the minimum work load requirement for a student deferment. Another draft board did not understand Harvard's advanced placement system...