Word: minimum
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Setting things right, Costick and Shafran have so far shipped off four pubs (among them: Brussels' Old Irish Inn, the John Bull Pub in Cascais, Portugal), have 14 others (minimum price: $500,000) in the works, and are negotiating a contract to build 200 for the U.S. market. The crated pieces can transform a Laundromat into a passable pub in ten days. Most popular are the Tudor-style pubs, which feature white walls, oak beams (hollowed to save shipping weight), and wrought-iron fixtures. But they can also be had in Regency (striped wallpaper, glass chandeliers) and Victorian (crimson...
...country to support needed programs that arises from the underdeveloped nature of the economy and the heavy burdens of war. The leaders of the universities have had their plans curtailed and restricted by annual budget cuts which allow them the means of funding little more than salaries at minimum levels. For fiscal 1967, the University of Saigon requested 250 million piasters and received 168 million (about $141,000 American dollars); the University of Can Tho for the same year requested 474 million pisters and received less than 174 million...
...other agreement reached in the Kennedy Round that depends upon Congressional action is the new grain deal which guarantees higher minimum wheat trading prices. The arrangement also committed participating countries to contribute 4.5 million tons of grain to a food aid program for less developed countries. Under this plan, the U.S. would supply 42 per cent of the total or maybe much more if the other countries bought their contributing share from Uncle Sam. American groups have complained mildly over the lack of significant accomplishments in agriculture, especially the U.S. failure to obtain a satisfactory guaranteed access to a certain...
...depend on the National Guard," he admitted. "That's why we asked for the Army." The paratroopers, some 40% of them Viet Nam veterans and more than one-fourth of them Negroes, displayed stern fire discipline and did an excellent job. "Our policy is to use an absolute minimum of force," explained a paratroop colonel. "I'd rather miss 100 snipers than hit a single innocent person...
...revolutionary move that may bring a whole new conception of student rights. But in fact, except for the brief clauses on abolishing lists of political organization members and on student voice in academic decisions, the statement calls for nothing which many college students already consider less than the minimum in basic rights and protection...