Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least temporarily-1,500 surplus social security workers who had just been fired. He also suspended a special 15% profit tax that Castello Branco had put through, held up a fare hike on some government rail lines and hinted that he might even double the country's minimum wage to $148 a month. But the military hard-liners are there to see that he does not slide...
...than he knows. If anyone manages to get himself caught smoking marijuana by Harvard officials, he can just as easily get himself caught by the police, and they are particularly unpleasant about this sort of offense -- it makes headlines. For a federal conviction there is a five-year mandatory minimum sentence -- no probation, no parole. In the past, the feds have tended to go after larger marijuana dealers, but, an informant of mine tells me, a recent confidential order said they were to stick with pounds and up except in cases involving college students; in those cases, one joint...
Police activities are geared, in Tonis' words, to the "protection of Harvard's property and personnel." In practice, this amounts to a combination of caretaking and emergency service, with a minimum of what could be termed police work. A routine shift involves turning on and off lights, and checking broken locks, windows, or suspiciously open doors. The force's three station wagon cruisers are used almost exclusively for transporting emergency cases to the health services, though at Radcliffe, their mere presence is an effective deterrent to the "peeping toms" who used to plague the Radcliffe dorms...
...colloquial campus name for Parsons is "Dropout U." Although well-paid, many Parsons professors must handle up to 20 class hours a week, and the teacher-student ratio is 1 to 20, compared with 1 to 6 at Harvard, 1 to 9 at Iowa. The association considers the minimum standard for a college library to be 255,000 volumes. Parsons' library...
...through a cord plugged into ordinary house current. Many motorists may balk at joining the Westinghouse rebellion, since the car, which will sell for "under $2,-000," will need $300 worth of new batteries every two years. Still Westinghouse claims that it already has orders in hand for the minimum 500 Markettes it will produce this year...