Word: minimum
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...previous opposition to the OEO plan as "costly, wasteful and inferior." Meeting in Los Angeles, the association warmly endorsed the idea and offered the aid of all members.* Even more approvingly, the American Bar Association last week urged Congress to double the OEO legal-aid budget to "a minimum" of $52 million. The goal is not only equal justice for the poor, said the A.B.A. It is also urgently needed "respect for law" in the "greatest breeding ground of the criminal world, the slum...
...recording companies are wide-awake to the marketing possibilities of the tapes. In December, RCA Victor will introduce "minimum concentration" language courses, plans later to bring out quiz games and storytelling tapes to pacify children on long trips. Doctors use the tapes to keep up with the medical news, traveling salesmen to hear pep talks from company executives. Editor William Buckley listens to Shakespeare's plays when driving to work; Jerry Lewis listens to scripts en route to the studio. Hundreds of players have been installed in powerboats and airplanes, as well as in funeral limousines, which broadcast hymns...
...throughout the Common Market for beef, sugar, milk, rice, olive oil and fruits and vegetables. The prices are higher than those now paid in the relatively efficient farming countries of the Six, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg, and lower than those in Germany and Italy. For instance, the minimum price for sugar beets will be set at $17 a ton, which is 42% higher than the current French price - but 6.6% lower than the German price...
...student scofflaws, the Mississippi State concession represents a golden opportunity to challenge similar parking regulations that exist at other campuses. They may, however, be inhibited by the Pyrrhic outcome of the decision. Illegal parkers will henceforth be tried before local justices of the peace, whose minimum fine for tickets is $12, rather than the $2 previously imposed by university regulations...
...fascinating, often startlingly valid job of reapplication. Where it doesn't fit, we still have the original. Babe has not been so carried away with the modern parallel as to seriously distort the play, and in the second half he seems to have kept his modernizing to a minimum. Thus the limitation of the fascist parallel--its lack of a modern alternative into which Dionysus can fit--is never fully exposed, because the interpretation is correctly underplayed...