Word: minimum
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Accepting Responsibility As a conscientious objector in the '60s, I was placed in a hospital darkroom developing X rays for two years, working just above minimum wage. For the same cause, a close friend spent six months in prison, leaving his wife and one-year-old child alone...
...minimum program consisting of little more than a stand-by allocation and stockpiling plan and efforts to import more oil from the countries least likely to join in an Arab-type embargo...
...video-camera and editing equipment for taped shows-and the cable time. Some cable companies also provide technical assistance, but few can afford to hire full-time public-access aides. The FCC lets the cable company charge a small equipment fee for programs that run more than the minimum five minutes allowed all applicants, but most stations schedule longer shows at no charge. If openings allow, in fact, even regular weekly shows may be arranged for. Usually the user's only expense is for video tape (about $10 per half-hour...
...presence of many alumni in the best seats in the rink keeps much of the noise level at games to a minimum, as the usual over-zealous screams are replaced with polite applause. Face it, most alumni (notice not all alumni) cannot afford to be rowdy. Watson Rink is not in any real danger of becoming a "snake pit" like the rinks at St. Lawrence, Dartmouth, Clarkson, Cornell or a number of other colleges with nationally-rated hockey squads...
...unrealistic for Middle East states to maintain posted prices for oil that are four tunes as high as they were last fall. Richer in petroleum reserves than any other nation, Saudi Arabia announced last month that in early August it would auction off some crude without setting a minimum price. Its plans aroused high hopes, especially in the U.S., that this month would see the beginning of the long-awaited price fall. But it is now clear that those hopes must be postponed. The auction...