Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast to the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communists seem to have consolidated their revolution with a minimum of physical brutality. Snow ran into many "reformed" landlords and ex-businessmen--men who would have been killed in Russia. According to law, political criminals are executed only when their counter revolutionary activity results in the death of another person. Most political prisoners go to rehabilitation centers or work camps where they receive education in socialism, a process called brainwashing in the West...
...development. The Association took planks of fiscal orthodoxy-a balanced budget, a free-as-possible economy, safeguards for private capital-and nailed them together into a platform designed to ease the basic plight of Venezuela : that "more than half of the population do not manage to satisfy the minimum needs of a human being...
...expand the economy, Maudling aimed for a minimum annual growth rate of 4%, conceding labor's right to demand a 3.5% wage boost if this is achieved. Though he disappointed many industrialists by not introducing European-style incentives for exporters, Maudling installed a set of ingenious tax concessions designed to modernize productive equipment and lure new industry into the areas of heavy unemployment. Added to sizable previous concessions to industry that he had already granted since taking over as Chancellor last July, Maudling hoped that his new budget incentives would put the economy in fighting trim by next April...
...Martin, son of a rich textile-man, at 22 bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1960-and proceeded to violate a batch of regulations before the exchange finally "advised" him to sell his seat in 1961. Requested by the SEC: new laws to set up minimum standards of knowledge for salesmen and financing for new firms, and the power to discipline and perhaps fine them when necessary...
...Crimson and, along with Joe Barton's control of midfield face-offs, were the only Crimson bright spots in a very dismal afternoon. The Terps kept goalie Gill Leaf occupied in the varsity nets most of the game and limited Harvard's offensive excursions to a bare minimum...