Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the President's throat and down his windpipe to deliver the anesthetic. Anesthetics must be chosen with special care for a patient with Johnson's heart-attack history; nitrous oxide offered the advantage of inducing only light anesthesia, so that the patient wakes up with a minimum of hangover. Dr. Didier had to use an especially thin tube to leave room for what else had to go down the presidential throat: a laryngoscope (see diagram), 2.5 centimeters in diameter. Peering through the laryngoscope with the six-power operating-room microscope, Dr. Gould saw the polyp...
...anti-missile missile, Nike-X, in which more than $2.4 billion has been invested in research, McNamara said only that there has been no decision to deploy it. Privately, he is opposed to Nike-X's deployment. For one thing, there is Nike's cost-a minimum of $30 billion; moreover, McNamara says, even if Nike-X is installed, the Russians could overwhelm it with an expenditure of only $5 billion in additional offensive power. He remains convinced that as long as the U.S. maintains its retaliatory capability, a nuclear exchange is highly unlikely...
...action looked completely incomprehensible. Some tried closing their eyes, but then they could still hear the lines-e.g., "Fifty kilometers to Paris? Hm. That's about 30 miles." Finally, a few coony old film critics discovered the only way to get through this movie with a minimum of discomfort: close both eyes and ears, and think about something pleasant-like chasing Director Clement around the Bois de Boulogne in a 30-ton Sherman tank...
...N.C.A.A. last spring ruled that all athletes participating in N.C.A.A. sponsored events must have a minimum grade average of C-. The Ivy League objected to an athletic association dictating academic policy, and refused to honor the N.C.A.A. ruling...
...terms of future economic legislation, business won and labor lost. A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders lament that in the next session of Congress they will have no hopes of expanding minimum-wage laws or repealing the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14B, which permits states to ban the union shop. Labor will be put in the defensive position-unique in recent years-of fighting off legislation to bar strikes and buttress the battered wage-price guidelines...