Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shelved until next year bills that would have increased unemployment compensation and the national minimum wage and imposed uniform criteria for drawing congressional district lines...
...prairie provinces-where the political leanings are Conservative, but the wheat buyer is always right-he can brag about last month's $450 million sale of 222 million bu. of wheat to Russia. He has installed a new and vastly expanded social security system, a new minimum-wage law and a far-reaching anti-poverty program. All this seems to be reflected in the most recent Gallup poll, which gives Pearson's Liberals a 45%-to-29% lead over the Conservatives compared with a 42%-to-33% margin during the 1963 election...
Keppel's office agrees, may reconsider these plans next year. Of all districts that submitted acceptable plans, however, almost 90% gulped hard and prepared to integrate all twelve grades this fall, while the rest accepted the four-grades-a-year minimum policy set by Keppel...
...despite all the expansion, Allan Cartter, vice president of the American Council on Education, reckons that only 17% of the nation's college libraries meet the 100,000-volume standard that is considered minimum for good undergraduate instruction. Only 25 graduate schools, moreover, can boast the 1.5 million volumes considered minimal by the council. In all, says Cartter, only two dozen academic libraries are "really adequate." Among the best: Harvard's libraries (7,245,000 volumes), followed by those of Yale (4,703,000), Illinois (3,748,000), the University of California at Berkeley (2,956,000), Cornell...
...steer her by." Even those who liked their ships squat and motorized took a certain pleasure in the austerities of self-sufficiency. The most popular models were made with no frills, on the reasoning that the buyers' basic impulse was to get away from it all, at a minimum expense. But in the past five years, more and more people have more and more money, and price no longer seems an object. Furthermore, the little woman has become a backseat helmsman, and she demands all the comforts of home...