Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realized the work was over; men were caught with their arms folded, women with fingers entwined in their coiffures. Thus surprised, they were able to summon up only enough applause to give Sessions and Conductor Steinberg a single extra bow-far less than the usual polite New York Philharmonic minimum...
...seek a Democratic coalition potentially as broad as F.D.R.'s. He is doing so, moreover, without any disavowal of the libertarian lodestar that led him into politics in the first place. "The nation needs to be calmed and unified," he says. "It needs steady social progress with a minimum of disorder. I offer leadership based not just on idealism but on a pragmatic approach to government. I offer the capacity to blend the different factors of American life into a national mosaic...
Although the GSOC slate faces no formal opposition on the ballot, a conservative faction of the Graduate Student Association (GSA) has kept support for the "new left group" at a minimum, according to Margaret Theeman, a member of the Graduate Student Council...
...that victims of severe heart attacks not only feel and appear breathless-they are actually oxygen-starved because neither heart nor lungs are working efficiently. For his tests he has chosen only patients who have had severe, potentially fatal heart attacks. He puts them in the chamber for a minimum of four days (one man stayed in for ten days). The patient breathes pure oxygen under pressure for two hours; then the lid is opened, and he breathes ordinary air for one hour. This cycle is repeated around the clock. Of Ashfield's first 40 patients, only three have...
...first result of the 51% discount rate, highest since the 6% rate posted by the New York Reserve Bank for three months in 1929, was a rush by commercial banks to lift their minimum lending rate from 6% to a record 61% annual interest. That "prime rate," as bankers call it, applies to borrowing by their bluest-chip corporate customers. Other interest rates throughout the economy scale upward from that level. Bankers predicted that loans will now grow costly enough to crimp small businessmen, capital-goods industries and local government construction projects. Worst hit, as usual, will be new housing...