Word: minimum
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Faubus' political genius is in the best American tradition--he is a great reconciler of conflicting interests. He won the support of businessmen by policies designed to encourage an influx of industry (keeping unions weak, and taxes low); he attracted the state's labor force, by increasing the minimum wage (from 50 to 75 cents); and his brief performance as a stemmer of the "black tide" gained him the hearts and votes of the right wing...
...separating the entranceway from the dining area. His TV set is placed behind a sliding Dubuffet, and from behind a Miro comes the sound of his hi-fi speaker. By using stainless steel, Formica and marble, and by keeping the place uncluttered, Mrs. Bunshaft cuts cleaning chores to a minimum...
...nation's transport. Recognizing this, the President's program would help the hard-pressed railroads most of all, and do some damage to their less heavily regulated competitors-notably the barge lines and truckers. Kennedy's key proposals: FREIGHT RATES. The ICC could no longer set minimum rates, only maximum rates. At present, the commission firmly fixes all railroad freight rates, while allowing truckers to set their own rates for farm goods and permitting barge operators to charge what they want for bulk commodities such as grain, ore, oil and coal...
Investigational Testing. The hard fact is that any potent drug is almost certain to have some dangerous incidental effects in some proportion of patients after it is widely used. To keep these backfires to a minimum. FDA first provisionally licenses a new drug"for investigational use only" (after testing in animals), whereupon most manufacturers get research physicians to try their product on 1,000 to 3,000 patients. It was this step-by-step procedure that fortuitously kept thalidomide. the sleeping pill now suspected of causing many malformations in babies in Europe and elsewhere (TIME...
...Other Drugs. With the aim of getting maximum benefits for patients at a minimum cost in illness and death from side effects, the American Medical Association's Council on Drugs keeps a running score of aplastic-anemia cases and related blood disorders attributed to drugs...