Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Citizens have absolutely no voice in the disposition of the Federal and city taxes they pay. Every year the D.C. Commissioners must prostrate themselves before the House District Committee and beg for minimum amounts of money for schools, hospitals, welfare, etc. They must submit to blackmail by the Committee, such as when, a couple of years ago, the Commissioners were warned not to issue a fair housing ordinance upon pain of not receiving an appropriation for schools and hospitals; or when last year the District Committee insisted on retaining the privilege of sifting through the traffic tickets and taking...
...create conditions in which it can live-remains a noble aim and a valid, long-range objective for American policy. The U.S. no longer insists that "real" democracy must conform to a particular version of the parliamentary or presidential system. But any meaningful definition of democracy must meet certain minimum conditions. The ancient Greeks had some careful notions about democracy, and none better than Jason's eloquent appeal in Euripides' Medea that, A good Greek land hath been Thy lasting home, not barbary. Thou hast seen Our ordered life, and justice, and the long Still grasp...
...Ridiculous. The new store is the latest addition to a fast-growing, American-owned international supermarket chain called Minimax (for "minimum prices, maximum quality"). Minimax is devoted to the idea that the emerging consumer class in Europe and elsewhere strongly wants such Yankee selling innovations as self-service, the checkout counter, prepackaged and frozen foods, big stores and plenty of parking space-and it tries to give them what they want in each of its 19 stores. Sometimes the buyers are so eager for American goods that they act a bit ridiculous. Last week's shoppers...
...distrust their ulterior ones. The more objectionable members of the Lampoon sendoff should be chastised, but more because it is unkind to call an overweight child "fatty" because he overeats to compensate for emotional problems. Fifteen thousand able-bodied students putting in an eight-hour day could raise a minimum of $120,000--a sum which, turned to the proper channels, could inform and educate hundreds of thousands of people. The fact that these people would rather take a Saturday bus ride to Washington--often with their dates, and march about with signs all day, ought to elicit more pity...
With no stage-set, a minimum of props (a couple of wine bottles, and an old bicycle), a maximum of high spirits and a great deal of skill, the Pan-African Student Organization took the stage of the Quincy-Holmes Arts Festival Saturday night to present the comedy "The Trials of Brother Jeroboam" by Wole Soyinka. With the exception of one bit-part, the entire cast was composed of African students now living in the Boston area...