Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Uncomfortable Majority. Most observers feel that Sato will win a majority in the 486-seat lower house, but that his "comfortable" majority of 278 seats may be whittled down toward the minimum majority of 244 seats. If that happens, he might find it necessary to call another election later in the year...
...Yorker can be committed only if he is presently insane, and more dangerously ill than the minimum required by the rather loose Freeman standards. Thus, if an allegedly insane tax defendant is sane enough to stand trial, he seems unlikely to face state commitment upon his federal acquittal...
...World War II, technology has pushed the price of introducing new goods so high that no company can risk its investment on anything so old-fashioned as a simple supply-and-demand marketplace -which is little more than a "fairy tale" anyway. To eliminate risks, droves of technocrats set minimum prices, ar range orderly supply and virtually dictate demand through advertising...
...Nothingness Isn't Negative." Two artists who master the minimum: Tony Smith, 54, whose 11-ft.-high Amaryllis is a black steel construction that bends like the Japanese art of origami, or paper folding, and Robert Smithson, 28, whose Alogon, also of black steel, cantilevers from the wall like a sawtooth set of staggered boxes. Their works are as unsettling as a spastic octopus sculpted by Michelangelo might have been...
...minimum, the decision will have a significant effect on a dozen pending lawsuits over branching, notably in Michigan; yet the comptroller's office professed at week's end to have no notion how many more of Saxon's controversial branch approvals might now be subject to attack. Many bankers seemed to agree with President Jack T. Conn of the American Bankers Association, who called the ruling "wonderful." But not Saxon, who became co-chairman of the American Fletcher Na tional Bank & Trust Co. of Indianapolis after his term as comptroller expired last month. Saxon scoffed at Clark...