Word: minimum
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...help 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific states, whose principal exports include cocoa, coffee, copra and cotton. If one of those countries' commodity earnings drop below an established minimum, it can draw an amount equal to the shortfall from the fund; when the commodity earnings recover, the fund is repaid...
...will speak through the voice of the Italian delegation; two other countries, Britain and Luxembourg, will be able to make comments as well, so long as they basically adhere to the overall Market position. Wilson's obstinacy, however, did gain Britain something: the Nine agreed to support a minimum price for oil, possibly $7 per bbl. The costs of producing the North Sea oil are so great that Britain feared any drop in prices would make its stormy offshore fields unprofitable and thereby ruin forever its chances of rising above its current economic problems...
...passes this season despite frequent triple coverage. Owens, whose older brother Steve was a Heisman Award-winning running back for Oklahoma six years ago, "doesn't have size or speed but makes the clutch catch." Even though Oklahoma won the Big Eight title this year with a minimum of passing, the scouts say another top wide receiver is Owens' teammate Billy Brooks...
...would not take much to make Harvard a more comfortable place for performers. At a minimum, the administration should satisfy the nuts-and-bolts demands in last week's petition--there is no excuse for the University's failure to provide adequate rehearsal facilities. The Music Department should devote more of its resources to the practice of the art it is named for, by expanding its program in performance to meet the demand. Harvard need not provide financial support for its musical groups, and direct subsidization might weaken the healthy diversity that now exists in musical life here. But Harvard...
Helprin also has problems with dialogue, and manages in most of his stories to keep it to a minimum. Fourteen out of the twenty stories are very short--four or five pages in length--and some suffer from a long, descriptive introduction; expectations are created which are left unsatisfied by the brief action at the end. One of the strangest stories in the collection, "Katrina, Katrin'," begins with a valiant struggle to reproduce the everyday speech of office workers on a New York subway platform, then abruptly shifts to a long, narrative story-within-a-story, a form with which...