Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heat was enormous. There wasn't any way to turn it off adequately. Every morning when Bill [William A. Jackson, curator of the Houghton from 1942 until his death in 1964] and I arrived at the so-called rare book room of Widener Library, the temperature would be a minimum of 85 degree, causing a dreadful degree of dryness for the books...
...commit himself morally because that might short-circuit his links with the power center in Washington. It is difficult to decide whether these people are prevented from taking dissident stands by the lures of government funds and being "where it's at," or whether they don't have the minimum moral outrage to even want to dissent. In any event the result is the same: they are silent when silence has a rather damning, not neutral, quality...
...often cases when a position simply must be taken, fully aware that the consequences may not be very desirable, and (2) there is no doctor; each individual must decide for himself on the proper course of action; no oracle or soothsayer is around who can give even the minimum of advice. Thus, I find myself forced by objective, observable events to recognize what is an absolutely insoluble contradiction: being practical and reasonable is impossible if I am to retain any shreds of sanity or honesty. Is a time of "saving" cities by destroying them one when a thinking person...
...July 1967 and April 1968, the Coop ran five training programs for 75 disadvantaged youths recruited through ABCD at a cost of twenty thousand dollars. The Coop pays wages competitively with the other retail stores in the area. Contrary to the opposition's claims, no employee earns under the minimum wage of $1.60 per hour, while the average employee wage is $1.95 per hour. In addition, employees get liberal fringe benefits, including a 20 per cent discount on merchandise for the first year and, thereafter, at cost, group and hospital insurance, sick pay, and paid vacation. As in most retail...
...REFORM. Nixon pledges to keep the controversial 27½% oil-depletion allowance, which Humphrey says should be reexamined. Humphrey favors closing loopholes in income, estate and gift taxes. He has urged a "minimum income tax" for the wealthy, no matter how many tax shelters they enjoy...