Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hills, grass and puddles. Its main features are: 1) a central pavilion where young children could keep out of the rain during the day and teen-agers could hold meetings at night, and 2) enough lumber, bricks, rope, pipes, hammers and nails to keep the kids busy. With a minimum of supervision, they would build tree houses, hideaways, swings-or just mud castles-and cook their own meals over an outdoor fire...
Simone: Well I don't mean to go that far, exactly. (Whispers from Sartre). Oh yes, wait a minute, transcendence is a good thing. Women must, after having gained this minimum of social and economic equality that I mentioned before, transcend the human condition. They must think of themselves as subject, instead of object; they must stop only embodying life for men and begin living life themselves. They must choose...
...very happy that the Graduate Society thinks so highly of our teaching fellows and that superb instruction in lower-level German courses is becoming legendary among the students," Stein said. "But in view of the fact that we give them only a minimum training program, it makes me shudder to think what teaching fellows are like in other departments," he added...
...years the backbreaking job of picking the big crops was done mostly by Mexican immigrant workers, known as braceros (arm laborers), who crossed the border in droves during peak sea sons. They lived, for the most part, in shanties, often received less than the $1.25-an-hour federal minimum wage...
Today, 50 million Italians spend much of their lives filling out official forms. Permission in triplicate (as a minimum) is required for practically anything: installing electricity in one's house in Rome, 21 different applications; exporting textiles, 200. One Rome resident reported that getting auto license plates took him four months, 71 phone calls, 18 documents, six tax stamps, and visits to 13 different offices. To fight the current building slump, Parliament authorized $2 billion in public works last fall. Virtually none of the money has been spent because it is so difficult to get approval of specific projects...