Word: minimum
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...name of unity, Gengras is an outspoken progressive who wants to reform party and state. He accuses the G.O.P. of being "boring, dull, unimaginative," demands "vitality, energy, creativity and spunk." He wanted-and got-a liberal platform that promises everything from more schools, parks and roads to an increased minimum wage and tougher enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. He also nailed down a plank denouncing the John Birch Society. "A Republican Party that plays footsie with the Birch Society and the radical right," said Gengras, "cannot win and does not deserve to win." The vociferous minority who supported Barry Goldwater...
...form or another have been a familiar fixture on many an American breakfast table. Whether or not they are prescribed by a pediatrician, they almost always boast the kind of label that assures a cautious parent he is doing right by his child. The fine print spells out "Minimum Daily Requirements" in esoteric quantities such as milligrams, U.S.P. or international units, and the average uncertain layman usually decides that if a little is good, more is surely better. The business in vitamin and mineral supplements to the U.S. food budget has grown to hundreds of millions of dollars a year...
...housing, the scarcity and high cost of mortgages are undoubtedly the major factors that will send housing starts down from 1,500,000 last year to 1,300,000 this year. Some lenders have lifted minimum down payments from 10% to 25%, increased interest rates from 5¼% to 6½%, and will not do business with people who have moved in from outside the community. Slump ing even faster than the sales of new homes are sales of used homes; many lenders demand an extra ½% mortgage interest to finance them...
...hunt for new business, Antwerp since 1956 has spent $100 million to clear industrial sites and double its harbor capacity, plans to have the port ready for 100,000-ton supertankers by 1970.*Belgium also gives foreign businessmen low-cost financing, tax holidays up to five years, and a minimum of government interference. As a result, the Washington-based Atlantic Council of blue-ribbon U.S. business and political leaders rates the country's investment climate as "perhaps the best in the Common Market...
There was plenty of other dissent. Many delegates were dissatisfied with the lack of specific spending proposals and timetables in the council report. Ruth Turner, a CORE official from Cleveland, wanted a minimum of $8 billion for housing alone. Bill Russell, the professional basketball player, criticized big business for being seen little and heard less at the conference. "What good is education without jobs?" Russell said. "It is big business corporations that control good jobs." Five of the panels urged that the pending civil rights bill on juries and housing be broadened. Others proposed a federal program to upgrade local...