Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these excess amounts should be artificially reduced. Bartlett and Britton, S. Dak. (6.7 p.p.m.) are cutting their natural levels down to about 1 p.p.m. A 150-lb. man who drinks 1-p.p.m. fluoridated water would have to drink a bathtubful, or 70 to 100 quarts daily, to get the minimum overdose that seems to affect the thyroid gland. The overdoses needed to damage kidney function or bones are still greater...
Still, the nation's public libraries are in bad shape. The American Library Association, which sets a minimum standard of 10,000 library volumes for communities with fewer than 2,500 people, figures that 69% of the 7,260 public libraries in the U.S. are substandard. Of the 8,000 elementary schools in the country, fully 60% have no central libraries, a state of affairs that U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel calls "a national disgrace...
Quelle crise! Culture Minister Andre Malraux has conducted a survey that shows that a minimum of 1,500 ateliers must be built by 1973, most of them just to house artists already living in condemned buildings. Since 1963, however, only $400,000 has been budgeted for new studios, and just 92 ateliers have been built. For the next five years, Malraux has only $200,000 a year to spend on artists' housing. Other than that, he can only encourage real estate developers to include low-cost ateliers in their high-cost apartment buildings...
...earns only 8% of its income from its retail shops. Source of almost all the remainder: eight giant garden centers spotted along the East Coast from Maryland to Long Island, which park up to 1,000 cars each and sell everything from insecticides to swimming pools, all with a minimum of overhead...
Declaring that young people want to know "not just what but why," and that current science and Biblical scholarship have provided deeper in sight into "the world and the Word," he said that law is a "bare minimum. The Christian must go beyond the law, to love...