Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nominees. The Governor had to go to court to make good an appointment to the public service commission. Like Arkansas Razorbacks crunching opposition ball carriers, the legislators downed one Rockefeller proposal after another: an audit of the corruption-tainted highway department, reform of jury selection, a $1-an-hour minimum wage, regulation of state employees' political activities. In a private aside that became embarrassingly public, Rockefeller said of the legislators: "I wish the bastards would go home...
...academic fund-raising technique, the orchestra announced that it will establish 19 permanently endowed chairs, one for the principal player of each major instrument. Saslav's will be endowed by retired Minneapolis Lumber Executive Leonard G. Carpenter in honor of his late father, a founder of the orchestra. Minimum price tag for the plan, the first such for any U.S. orchestra: $500,000 for the concertmaster's chair, $250,000 for the others...
...most of the Senators on the subcommittee think the stamps should be free. Coles pointed out last week that many sharecroppers "live entirely outside the money economy, by barter." These people cannot raise even 50 cents--the present minimum price of the stamps...
...initials are for United States Pharmacopoeia, a 1,200-page volume, revised every five years, that is produced by a private, nonprofit association of physicians, pharmacists, chemists and biologists. Congress has repeatedly specified that U.S.P. standards, which now cover 900 pharmaceutical products, shall be accepted as minimum qualifications by Government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration...
...reckless squandering of American lives and resources, the Administration, Galbraith argues, should limit its military action to securing "the maximum of security, tranquility and well-being in the limited but populous areas that we control." In this way Galbraith hopes to maintain a U.S. commitment in Vietnam with a minimum loss of life until a negotiated settlement is achieved...