Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital gains, Kennedy's package would trim the rates but stretch out the minimum holding period from the present six months to one year. He calls for outright repeal of some special-case provisions that presently clutter the income tax forms...
...Late for Help. "These are elemental men," says Guzmán, "primitive, with minimum education." They are no longer part of their nation, have lost all faith in law and in many of their priests. Guzmán cites the case of one Teófilo Rojas, 27, nicknamed "Sparks," whose home was burned by soldiers when he was 13. Sparks fled into the hills and grew up a killer-with 592 deaths on his record. Guzmán once asked him: "What do you want?" Answered Sparks: "To be left alone to work. I want to learn to read...
...come now." Khrushchev wrote Kennedy just before Christmas, "to put an end once and for all to nuclear tests. We are ready to meet you halfway." To Nikita, halfway meant two or three inspections each year to investigate suspicious tremors: the U.S. thought that eight inspections would be the minimum, having whittled that down from its original twelve. While the U.S. has been demanding that at least a dozen unmanned seismic detection stations, or "black boxes," be installed on Soviet soil, Khrushchev said that three would do-one each in Siberia's Altai Mountains, the Virgin Lands of Soviet...
Over the protests of militant Marxists, he began promoting "healthy cooperation" with France, sought increased aid. "They are duty bound to help us reconstruct," he said in an interview with TIME Correspondent James Wilde. "This would help dissipate all that went before." France is committed to give Algeria a minimum of $200 million a year for the next three years and is sponsoring its association with the Common Market...
...sprawling Coal Board, which employs more than 580,000 people. Shuttling from mine to mine, he patiently explained to the miners the need to close unprofitable mines and automate the remaining ones. His down-to-earth, ex-union leader's approach won the miners' support. With a minimum of furor, Robens has closed 50 marginal mines in northern England and Scotland, moved many of the displaced workers to expanding mines in the Midlands. A 4% raise in miners' wages last year was more than offset by an 8% increase in productivity; today the output...