Word: minimum
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...desire in recent years to justify their existence. A handful of promising students from Roxbury or Harlem is taken in to manifest social awareness--at the same time a promising football player from suburban Boston is taken in to get him ready to meet his Ivy League college's minimum scholastic standards while he gratifies the old grads on Saturday afternoons in the Fall...
...Idyll's original performance was by a minimum of musicians strung along the stairway of the Wagner villa. In a misguided attempt at authenticity, Hathaway eliminated most of the Bach Society's already small complement of strings. Without security in numbers. the string players were cowed by the infamous intonation problems of this highly chromatic piece...
...Aaron Copland's Quiet City (1940), the Bach Society had the advantage of two fine wind players. Alan Pease's trumpet was as "nervous" as is called for in the score, and Fred Fox's English horn was properly dark and seductive. The strings handled their part with a minimum of painful intonation and a good deal of taste. All in all Quiet City was the most successful of the works attempted, evocative where the others were dutiful...
Ground-based rescue systems have serious drawbacks. The House space-rescue report estimates that the minimum time required to launch a Titan 3 rocket and rendezvous its rescue vehicle with a low-orbiting spacecraft is four hours. In addition, the orbiting, disabled ship would pass near Cape Kennedy only two or three times per day. Should a countdown be delayed long enough for the "rendezvous window" to close, the rescue ship would have to delay its flight for hours. Thus, unless the astronauts were well supplied with oxygen and in no immediate danger, the rescuers might arrive too late. NASA...
...Comprehensive High School is a sequel to Conant's 1959 survey, The American High School Today, in which he found that only eight of the 55 high schools he had studied met his "minimum criteria" for acceptable quality. In a new survey of 2,024 schools, Conant reports that 40.3% now give courses in calculus, 49.5% teach the new physics, 92% offer remedial classes for lower-ability students, 99% offer music. Even more significant, about half of the schools have a 20-to-1 student-teacher ratio-a standard that Conant considers basic. On the other hand, he finds...