Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plainly too diminutive to meet the Navy's minimum height requirement (5 ft. 6 in.). So Victor Krulak persuaded a buddy to hit him on the head in hopes of raising a bump big enough to narrow the stature gap. That ploy failed, so-bloody but unbowed-Krulak petitioned and won the right to join the U.S. Marines as the shortest man in the corps. His Annapolis instructors also rated him low-among the bottom 10% of the class of '34 in military aptitude...
...price for such concessions will come high, particularly for meeting the wage demands of the workers. At week's end the union leaders, meeting with Pompidou and employer representatives, had already won the promise of a 20% increase in France's minimum wage. The bill for that, and the subsequent rounds of inflation that a massive increase in purchasing power is bound to touch off, will almost certainly erode the value of the franc, might even lead ultimately to its devaluation...
...opinions of those middle-class voters which present the greatest obstacle to enactment of minimum income legislation. Whatever else they do, election-year Congressmen simply cannot let their constituents think that the poor are "getting away" with anything. The portion of the American Middle Class that sees the poor as sloppy, drunken, and lustful, is determined that the poor should pay for their libertine existence with poverty. It sees any attempt to bring the poor up to or near its income level as a threat to its own position. The view is shortsighted, of course. Being poor in America really...
Laird's plan is a Negative Income Tax, which is not necessarily equivalent to a guaranteed minimum income. With NIT, the government makes up a certain proportion of the difference between a person's earned income and a set base figure. Laird's bill sets the base at $3000 and the proportion at one-half. In a sense, this NIT does guarantee a minimum income of $1500, but for NIT to be a guaranteed minimum income in the proper sense of the word, it should make up the full difference between the income and the base figure. By making...
...only proposal which stands a chance of pleasing both the middle class and the poor is one that combines a minimum income with an opportunity for a job and an obligation to work. This plan operates under the theory that income guarantee is necessary, but that those receiving it must undertake full-time productive employment. A concurrent elimination of minimum wage laws would permit industry to hire more labor than it can now. The government could offer public works employment as an alternative to unattractive industrial jobs, undertaking projects like slum clearance and cleaning littered highways--projects that require great...