Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back on target, Vaughn has upgraded pre-assignment training until it accounts for a quarter of his budget. Instruction has been stretched from eight to 14 weeks, with a minimum of 300 hours of language tutoring. Courses are offered in 183 tongues, including Twi, Tswana, Sesotho, Pushtu, Waray-Waray and Bicolano...
...concerned the U.A.W.'s cherished cost-of-living escalator clause. While the old contract provided for unlimited automatic wage adjustments geared to the consumer price index, this time Ford got annual ceilings of 8? and 7? in the second and third years of the contract, agreeing to a minimum annual increase of 3? in return. The pennies were not peanuts; 1? an hour on Ford's 160,000-man payroll means $3,200,000 a year...
...year 1966-67, Stacey reckons that his company has successfully concluded $50 million worth of corporate mergers. Clients give Chesham 4% for the first $1,000,000 paid for the acquired company, with a minimum of 1 % for all amounts in excess of $3,000,000. The outlook for the merger brokers is bright, for as Strathclyde University Professor K. J. Alexander puts it: "The curse of bigness has now been replaced by the cult of bigness." Consolidating the big, unwieldy corporations is only a start. England is still a country of almost cottage-size businesses whose copycat ways...
...completion of high school, completion of the baccalaureate, and completion of the higher degree. While most sociologists feel that a break after high school in formal education would do students most good, the deans are certainly correct in saying that any of their alternatives will "create a minimum of disruption and uncertainty in the lives of those eligible for service" as compared to the present system...
Bogovich barely winds up, and has a minimum amount of approach. By just bending his leg at the knee and firing away, he manages to get super human power into a soccer shot...