Word: minimum
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...start of the session, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. urgently requested enactment of a $2-an-hour minimum wage, a standard 35-hour work week and double pay for overtime. None of these proposals even came up for a vote. Last week the Senate made so bold as to reject the bill that union chiefs craved more than any other: repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's hated 14(b), the "right to work" clause, under which 19 states have outlawed union membership as a condition of employment...
Hello from Him. At last Johnson's doctors, as Moyers put it, insisted "that he take every opportunity to rest; that he maintain a very minimum schedule the next few weeks." As a result, his hard-working staff was able to relax for the first time in months. Moyers, who normally is on call 24 hours a day, even managed to catch a few innings of the last World Series game...
Pakistan holds the superior moral position in the Kashmir conflict. At minimum, the Security Council resolution for a plebiscite should be upheld, and Moslem Kashmir should probably be included in a Moslem state. Yet American sentiment has swung noticeably toward India in the past few months for reasons which go beyond the simple territorial dispute...
Doty, whose report delved into all the aspects of the Gen Ed program and made numerous proposals for reforms, suggested that the CEP had adopted a different tack. He said the committee "has chosen to provide the minimum structure on which a Gen Ed program can be built, and left it to the General Education Committee to put some flesh on the bones...
...pole, the prisoner of planners who have dictated everything, from what he produces and where he sells it to how much he pays his men. Over the years the planners multiplied, and so did their instructions - which only taught the manager to play it safe and aim for the minimum needed to keep Moscow happy. Last week, in a firm, 15,000-word proposal, Premier Aleksei Kosygin declared a new bill of rights for the factory manager...