Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escape the two-year draft by taking a six-month tour with the Army, then return home to spend from three to 5^ years with their local units. Guardsmen "train" for two hours a week, go off to summer camp for 15 days every year, earn a minimum of $180 a year...
...only be strong enough to wipe out all Soviet missle basis in a fist strike. But, even after U.S. first-line bases have been attacked, U.S. power will be capable of destroying cities in a second major blow. In the past, Hughes stressed, American strategy had relied on a minimum force, sufficient to deter Russian attacks, but had discounted the notion of "Prevailing" in the event...
From Concrete to Carpets. To tempt the consumer in an economy that is becoming increasingly sophisticated, Gene Ferkauf has decided that the discounter's low prices are not enough and must be accompanied by at least a minimum of atmosphere and service. By so doing, he, more than any other discounter, has brought respectability to a business in which the clerks all too often seem to be taking 10% off for rudeness. At Korvette's, the discounter's original pipe racks and cold concrete floors have given way to piped-in music and wall-to-wall carpeting...
...plans to publish an instructional golf book under his byline; MacGregor and Slazengers will produce Jack Nicklaus golf clubs; Revere Sportswear will manufacture a Jack Nicklaus line of shirts and sweaters. Nicklaus has been signed for three TV golf shows, he will play a series of exhibitions (at a minimum of $2,000 each), and he is negotiating contracts for endorsements of slacks, walking shorts, sports jackets, windbreakers, shoes, cigarettes and skin bracer. Arnold Palmer, an old hand at such matters, has often complained that his extracurricular business activities leave him too little energy for playing championship-caliber golf...
...billion over the past decade. Fort Knox has onlv $4.7 billion left to go before it breaks through the $11.7 billion floor of gold legally required to back U.S. paper currency and the banking system. Although the Fed can suspend the requirement at will, a drop below that minimum could cause a run on the dollar and compel Washington to clamp controls...