Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal calls for consuming nations to set a minimum or "floor" price for imported oil that would protect the investments of companies developing new energy sources from the risk of suddenly falling crude prices. The other would achieve the same objective by levying a common tariff on oil imported from outside IEA nations. The Europeans, for their part, are looking for another method of protecting investment in energy development that would be more flexible and thus better able to meet the varying needs and capabilities of the consuming countries...
...Department of Labor notified the City of Cambridge earlier this year that the position of Cambridge as a prime sponsor in the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Program is in jeopardy because the Cambridge population does not meet the $100,000 minimum required for sponsorship. As a prime sponsor. Cambridge now manages a $7 million suburban division of the program...
...CLGS often goes to seniors who have dropped their theses, and Pipkin said that the new guidelines would establish a grade-point average minimum for all students who would attempt to qualify for the honor...
...dwellings inaccessible to ordinary folks; real estate deals that exclude low-income Cambridge dwellers desperately needing such housing; blossoming of cultural activities within the University community, with nothing of any cultural content for or in behalf of the Cambridge community; working for Harvard as "inferior" types, at minimum wages...
...reforms the state agreed to in the process of bargaining at Attica only three--the creation of an ombudsman's office, a grievance procedure, and allowing political activity--were real changes. The rest were either hedged promises conditional on legislative action--modernizing inmate education and applying the minimum wage to inmate labor, for instance--or changes like allowing religious freedom that Wicker thought should have been in effect all along. The inmates were holding out for amnesty from prosecution for actions taken during the rebellion. They knew of the Auburn and Tombs riots after which the state had filed grab...