Word: minimum
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...these reasons, the Wisconsin Council on Criminal Justice recommended to the governor in 1972 that Wisconsin's prisons be abolished and that money be allocated instead to minimum security community and vocational rehabilitation programs. Wicker feels that America's prisons should be abolished: "Hate and fear have been made institutions, tax supported, government-operated, sealed with the approval of society...
...billion, Meany last month called for a $20 billion slash. Last week when the House Ways and Means Committee called for a reduction of $21.3 billion, Meany raised his figure to $30 billion. Said he: "Events are overtaking not only the President but the Congress." Meany also wants a minimum wage of $3 an hour and, to spur home building, mortgage rates lowered by Government action to 6%, a notion as simple as it is unworkable...
...Nixon for a group of youths. Ehrlichman, who claims to be $400,000 in debt already to his lawyers, came away with only one marginal break from Judge Sirica: if all appeals fail, he will be allowed to serve his new prison term concurrently with a 20-month minimum sentence for conspiracy in the Daniel Ellsberg case...
...scientists learned from a Chinese news broadcast monitored by the CIA that authorities had "mobilized the masses" before the disaster, a move that was "based on the earthquake forecasts and notices issued by our country's earthquake stations and posts." As a result, injuries were reduced "to a minimum, thereby demonstrating the unexcelled superiority of socialism...
Haim Zadok told a Hillel-sponsored forum that although Israel undertakes preventive detention for national security reasons, the number of detainees has been "kept to the barest minimum," and has not exceeded 20 at any one time...