Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's money supply to an annual rate of less than 5%-nowhere near enough to meet the credit demands of an inflationary econ, omy. Now there are some signs I that the board, realizing the shaky state of business, is becoming a trifle more generous; at minimum, it has stopped twisting the money tourniquet ever tighter. That small bit of good news was enough to touch off a Friday stock market rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average up 22 points...
...have been scrambling to buy goods that might become scarce or rise further in price. That process cannot continue forever. Soon, businessmen will have to stop filling already bulging warehouses, and the reduction in their orders for goods either will bring on a classic "inventory recession" or, at minimum, will be a drag on production...
...James Butler, 59, of the First Presbyterian Church in Bismarck, N. Dak. "Now they are $7, $8 or $10. You have to gulp before you buy." Because collections have not kept pace with inflation, Butler has been forced to cut the church's projects and staff to a minimum. When the parsonage fell into disrepair, the Butlers themselves repainted it and pasted up new wallpaper. "The estimates from contractors were just too high," recalls Mrs. Butler. "We didn't want the church to have to do so much...
...Every day Los Angeles cars belch the better part of 700 tons of noxious chemicals into the atmosphere. To protect the public's health from that heady mix of poisons, the Federal Clean Air Act of 1970 set firm deadlines for air quality to be improved to specific minimum standards. In Los Angeles' case, mass transit would presumably help by enticing commuters out of their cars. But the Southern California Association of Governments, which represents the 126 cities and counties stewing in the bowl of ambient filth known as the Los Angeles air basin, hoped to find another...
...book at tunes has the stilted air of This Is Your Life, it is still top entertainment for the reader, with scarcely a dull minute and only a minimum of station breaks (i.e., plugs for Cavett). Cavett is no one-shot, gag-Line comedian but a man whose turn of mind brings intelligence and humor to bear on childhood memories and adolescent contretemps (mostly sexual), and produces marvelously generous yet accurate assessments of his rivals (Carson, Paar, et al.) and acknowledged betters (Groucho Marx and Woody Allen). May the book's Nielsen rating be higher than Cavett...