Word: minimum
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...clinic in the Congo, and build a school and irrigation dams in India, a youth center in Somalia, a sanitarium in Mongolia and a hospital on Cyprus. Averaging between 23 and 33 years old-about seven years older than the U.S. volunteers-the Communist corpsman signs up for a minimum of three months, takes a cram course on his host country and, once on the job, receives free board, lodging and $3 a week in spending money. To guard against defections, candidates are carefully screened, and those finally chosen travel and work in large groups, remaining where possible under...
...Theater is that it uses audiences almost like guinea pigs, trying to incite them to active emotional responses rather than passive mental assent. Critics have called this assault on the senses "the drama of the anti-word" or "the theater of attrition." Dialogue and plot are reduced to a minimum and replaced by improvisation, ritual and a grotesquerie of violence and the macabre...
...symbol of U.S. readiness to defend the dollar, the Federal Reserve Board raised its basic interest rate from 4% to 4½%, and major commercial banks seized the occasion to lift their own minimum charge for borrowing from 5?% to 6%. Watching the minimal extent of the fallout, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler pronounced himself "very encouraged" over the dollar's performance against the resulting speculative pressure in foreign exchange markets. The biggest effect-accompanied by some temporary alarums-came in the gold market. Speculators poured buy orders into the eight-nation London gold pool. In a few hours, they...
...Making "pass" equivalent to a C-minus would obviously not be a very stringent requirement, but it would slightly restrict the number of students who could comfortably experiment under pass-fail. Because such a restriction is inconsistent with the plan's purpose, D-minus should be the minimum grade for "pass...
Leon H. Keyserling, former Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, called Saturday for a two-part program to end poverty in the United States--guaranteed federal full-employment, and a minimum annual income...