Word: minimum
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That confrontation, carried out with a minimum of emotion and a maximum of drama, climaxed the first week of the trial. Speck, who has received more careful legal and physical protection than any other murder suspect in recent history (his trial was shifted from Chicago for fear of adverse publicity), is represented by Public Defender Gerald Getty, 53, none of whose 80 odd murder defendants has ever received a death sentence. The accused, sometime merchant seaman and ex-convict, seemed to have been crossed up only by the one event of July 13 that the killer had overlooked. By rolling...
...Aaah." The minimum purse for a standard allowance or claiming race at Aqueduct ($3,500) has not been raised in 20 years simply because the tracks cannot afford to; by law they are nonprofit operations, and all they do is break even. In those same 20 years, the basic cost of keeping a race horse in training has gone up from $8 per day to as much as $22 per day. In addition, every time a veterinarian makes his horse say "Aaah," the owner shells out $25; blacksmiths get $18 for putting on a pair of horseshoes, jockeys...
...isolate the most damaging single feature of American foreign policy in the last twenty years it has been our recurrent support of nauseous despots whom we wouldn't for a moment tolerate within our own frontiers. And much of this support has come from administrations in which, at a minimum, liberal influence has been strong. It has been another result of imagining we could be liberal at home and reactionary abroad. I hope it is a lesson we have finally learned...
...more precise estimation, he showed up at other rallies, noted that the plaza was divided into 22-ft. squares. By counting the number of students in several squares and dividing, he was able to compute the average area occupied by an individual. This varied, he deduced, from a minimum of 4 sq. ft. in a tightly packed crowd to a maximum of 9.5 sq. ft. in a loosely knit...
...better." To a considerable extent, universities are beginning to deal with this situation: campuses from Yale to California have acquired staffs of practicing artists as well as art historians. Nowhere is the picture brighter than at Manhattan's Hunter College, a city-run school that has, with a minimum of fuss, assembled one of the nation's liveliest art faculties...