Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coed prisons tend to be on the frontier of permissiveness. Though many of the inmates have committed violent crimes, they are considered minimum-security risks on the basis of their behavior in old-fashioned prisons...
...different significance. For Chile, a penny-a-pound decline in the price of copper means the loss of $11 million in potential export earnings; Zambia loses even more. The producer nations are now planning cartels, modeled after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, to set and enforce minimum prices. Chile, Peru, Zaire and Zambia have tried to organize a copper cartel, and seven nations, including Australia, Guinea, Jamaica and Yugoslavia, recently formed the International Bauxite Association to prop up prices for that ore, which is used to make aluminum. Most commodity producers, however, lack the religious, ethnic and cultural...
...Johnson appointed the Harvard-trained economist as the first black among the board's seven governors. Brimmer used the job to disseminate controversial, exhaustively documented opinions on black banks (they were more a symbol of black achievement, he thought, than a meaningful source of capital for economic development), minimum-wage laws (they worsened black unemployment by hindering the hiring of unskilled ghetto teenagers) and black capitalism (it was doomed to remain marginal unless blacks could develop large businesses that could compete in predominantly white markets). Now, with almost six years of his 14-year term remaining, Brimmer has resigned...
...wide variety of drinks and desserts makes the Parrot a good place for a mid-afternoon or late-night snack--but be prepared to spend at least 75 cents on weekend nights when there's a minimum...
...minimum of 15 transfers will be admitted to Harvard College for the academic year 1975-1976, the Admissions Office announced in late August. The year-long moratorium was an attempt to reduce over-crowding caused by an increase of 300 undergraduates in 1971 designed to achieve a 2.5:1 sex ratio...