Word: minimum
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...measure he vetoed last year on constitutional grounds. At that, this year's bill will doubtless be picked over meticulously in the courts. Among other things, the bill gives Washington a stiff antiriot code. While Johnson praised this provision, he questioned two others. One is a clause setting minimum sentences for certain crimes - rather than leaving sentences to the discretion of the court. The second is a provision that allows police to question a suspect for up to three hours before bringing him before a magistrate. Any confessions obtained in this period would be valid...
...speech 39 times-and a network TV audience, Johnson reminded his listeners of what he has done for them lately and not so lately, including two civil rights laws, immigration reform, an array of urban programs ranging from model cities to rat control, consumer-protection statutes, air-pollution control, minimum-wage increases and, inevitably, "81 months of solid prosperity to break all records in American history." Promptly and conveniently, the Labor Department announced that unemployment from October to November fell from 4.3% to 3.9%, while unemployment among Negroes decreased from...
...logical enough; what private thoughts the Administration has about a settlement should remain private until they can be used for practical effect. But since the war quite possibly will end by negotiation, the U.S. had better have clearly in mind the maximum goals that it aims for and the minimum terms it will settle...
Maximum Goals & Minimum Compromises
...creditors throughout the world are not at all anxious to bring down the present monetary system by drawing out the remaining U.S. supply. And Congress, as Moore urges, may soon expand the available supply by ending the requirement that enough gold be kept frozen to back a minimum 25% of the value of currency in circulation. That would free all of the nation's $12.43 billion in gold for the support of the $35 price abroad...