Word: minimum
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...include any reference to the University. In essence, the statement said that he would pay whichever was greater: $6.5 million or $2.3 million plus the cost of relocation. Previously, he had only said he would pay $2.3 million plus the cost of relocation, putting no minimum level...
Straight from Dreamland. To hear New Frontiersmen tell it, the new budget is lean and hard, a direct result of heroic economizing. President Kennedy labeled it "frugal," said it represented the "minimum necessary to meet the essential needs." Defense Secretary Robert McNamara-it was said-had slashed $13 billion from the Army, Navy and Air Force requests; the Budget Bureau and the White House had lopped still another $8 billion or so out of the civilian agencies' budgets...
...nearly 4,000,000 houses that were built before 1880, 50% have no bathrooms, and at least 500,000 are officially designated as slums. Britain in the next 20 years will have to build a minimum of 300,000 houses a year. The shortage is compounded by a steady influx of office buildings into downtown areas and an exodus of city dwellers to the suburbs, where land grows ever more scarce and costly. Outside London, the government may even be compelled to build new towns in the Green Belts, as Britons call the jealously preserved rural areas around their cities...
Instant Capitalism. In its foreign operations, Van Camp tries hard to make friends. It employs nearly 3,000 locally hired workers abroad, keeps its U.S. supervisory staff to a bare minimum. In both Peru and Ecuador, its canneries produce fish byproducts that the company sells at cost to supplement the low-protein native diet. In Ecuador the company has enabled local fishermen to own boats by giving them loans and taking a cut of each catch until the debt is paid...
...gift to the hopelessly poor unskilled laborers who make up one-fifth of the work force, Franco last week announced an increase in the minimum wage that will almost double their take-home pay and fringe benefits (to $1.66 a day). Spain, said Franco, in a year-end TV and radio address, is now "a nation of peace, on the road to economic recuperation, with a capacity for growth in all sectors of its life, and with a youth that is technically prepared and eager to face the future...