Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brennan replies, that argument presumes that the U.S. and the Soviet Union will maintain their present definitions of the minimum loss they are willing to inflict upon each other...
...Center in Boston will be relocated according to plans announced by Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, on April 12. Ebert's statement said that families will be relocated in several phases into housing "as suitable as possible to their choice and means, and with a minimum of inconvenience and hardship...
...there was, in fact, less tension generated this time than by the Pueblo incident. Lyndon Johnson mobilized 14,787 reserves last year and managed to create a crisis atmosphere with no immediate result. Nixon, who had built much of his reputation on militant antiCommunism, kept his response to the minimum consistent with national honor and domestic politics. As Secretary of State Rogers acknowledged, great power-and responsibility-often imposes narrow limits on national choice...
Every year since 1962, with monotonous regularity, bills have been introduced in Congress calling for approval by some federal agency of hospital electrical devices to ensure that they meet minimum safety standards. So far, all the bills have been killed in committee...
...moving away from a tradition of guilt and grief, U.S. Protestants are trying to retreat from the excesses of funeral-parlor escapism. The Southern California-Arizona Conference of the United Methodist Church has told ministers to urge burial from a church rather than a mortuary, to recommend a minimum of ceremony, and to expect no remuneration for presiding. In Detroit, the Rev. Dr. Jack Rollings of Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle has set a limit of 15 minutes on his eulogies. "I remember a time," he says, "when if you didn't speak for 30 minutes, it meant you didn...