Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson knows that something like that amount is sure to be cut this year, especially in view of the fall elections. But the bill is passed each year, even though it has become something of a political whipping boy. Staunch Administration stands have several times kept cuts to a minimum. In 1961 President Kennedy asked for $4.8 billion and received $4.4 billion plus the new administrative organization he proposed. He lost only on his controversial suggestion for treasury borrowing authority. Johnson, who has much more influence in Congress now than Kennedy did in 1961, could certainly have kept aid appropriations...
...that state libel Taws threaten the very existence of an American press virile enough to publish unpopular views on public affairs and bold enough to criticize the conduct of public officials. An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. I regret that the court has stopped short of this...
...bill is rejected--and a defeat in the House would effectively kill it--then opponents of the Council hope to gather a minimum of 11,000 signatures for a referendum in November...
That sort of regional trouble is perhaps only to be expected in a huge, tribally fragmented nation like Nigeria. But what happened earlier this year in Tanganyika, blessed by a minimum of tribal conflict, came as a jolt to all the world...
President Joao Goulart has just signed a decree doubling the monthly minimum wage for urban Brazilian workers to 42,000 cruzeiros, which is $68 on the official exchange rate and about $30 in actual buying power. The workers are glad to get the cash they need to chase rising prices, but the new move adds just another episode to the nightmare that businessmen must endure to survive in Brazil. Says William Jones, general manager of Remington Rand in Brazil: "Every executive here should read Through the Looking Glass at least once each week-especially that part where Alice is told...