Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retract his words. Again, in a 1953 argument with Michigan's acidulous Republican Representative Clare Hoffman, McCormack delivered an insult that is still recalled whenever Congressmen trade stories. "I would defend the Gentleman," he said, in a mockery of the politest parliamentary style, "because I have a minimum high regard for him." Once he called Republican Floor Leader Charles Halleck a "hijacker," and stuck his finger into Halleck's jowl for emphasis. But Indiana's Halleck comes from another hard political school, and he understands McCormack. "John McCormack," he says, "always was a worthy and formidable antagonist...
...nations will give increased preference to goods from the African nations, with which they have close ties. In Uruguay in February 1960, the seven nations signed a treaty to form the Latin American Free Trade Association, and agreed to eliminate all tariffs between members within twelve years at a minimum yearly rate...
Last September they began a three-month meeting to work out the initial reductions on everything from lemons to razor blades and burlap. When the agreements were averaged out, they amounted to 27%, instead of the treaty-set minimum of 8%. At next August's meeting, the cuts may go deeper. Already two more nations-Ecuador and Colombia-have asked to join, and by August, the Latin American common market should include 86% of Latin America's territory, 81% of its population, more than 70% of its gross product, and 60% of its total trade...
...would be issued freely during these hours); and a custodian. Using the figure of $4/hr., this amounts to $16/hr. in salaries. Additiional heating costs during the winter would be low, since the library is heated to 60 degrees even when closed, and electricity costs could be kept to a minimum by use of selective lighting. Figuring on total additional costs of $25/hr., these added 51 hours would cost roughly $1300/wk. When one considers that annual expenditures of Widener Library--excluding acquisition and binding costs are almost $1 1/4 million, an added $70,000 is indeed a small sum to enable...
...wrough-iron nudes, and the quaint ugliness of the Bick underwent renovation, this cafeteria could afford the most modern facade on the square. Hayes-Bick and Waldorf's have unjustly overburdened the Cambridge consumer. If Albiani's, with its admirable ratio of empty tables to people manages without a minimum, so can the other cafeterias...