Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great teachers? Maybe. But you should put more emphasis on the teachers at East Alphabet State, who work with a minimum of salaries, facilities and raw material to turn out the people who are the backbone of our country. On a clear day one may feel that the backbone has slipped a disc, and yet I sometimes have occasion to take a dim view even of our product...
...also stumped white neighborhoods, addressed white civic clubs, won the endorsement of the white-ruled Democratic organization. While her opponent, former State Representative J. C. Whitfield 44, resorted to plaintive racist appeals ("Can a white man win?") Miss Jordan drummed home the need for such reforms as state minimum-wage provisions, industrial-accident laws and lower auto-insurance rates...
...proposes a higher minimum wage and an extension of the existing minimum to cover workers unprotected by minimum to cover workers unprotected by minimum wage legislation. Brooke suggests that the benefits of Medicare be extended to needy younger people, and he cautiously states that a negative income tax "ought to be seriously considered" as a means of raising income of the disadvantaged to an established minimum level...
Also yesterday the Council received a report from Charles F. Sprague, Super-inyard building did not violate City zoning regulations, which set minimum limits on the parking spaces around them...
...better solution than the uncertain safeguard of self-regulation would be the bill now before Congress authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to set mandatory minimum safety standards. The customer himself can hardly detect weak door latches or lance-like steering columns whose deadlines might show up only in a crash. But federal inspectors could locate the hidden killers and require manufacturers to eliminate them. Just as significantly, the government could insure continuing progress in automotive safety by demanding that technical innovations such as the collapsible steering column be installed as soon as they are developed. Then foot-dragging on features...