Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hupp's most controversial moves has been to relax Boys Town's almost monastic regime. He has ended the censorship of mail, tolerated longer hair, and even endorsed dating. "My first impression upon coming to Boys Town was that this place was a minimum-security prison," said Mike Casey...
...into a movie. Eventually it has to be dealt with on its own terms. And these terms are, for the most part, non-cinematic in the avante-garde sense of the word. Bogdanovich sticks strictly to the traditional narrative film, so much so that editing is kept to a minimum. Instead he prefers smooth transitions within scenes: the long-shot, dolly-in and pan. The colors are rich, almost too opulent--the Victorian chambers begin to blend into each other in a boring kind of luxuriance, and that doesn't help the sometimes tedious dialogue...
...second year. But in future sessions, the union cut its second-year demands to 15 per cent and then, after Harvard flatly rejected that, went down to 12.5 per cent. The printers had voted before the most recent proposal that 15 per cent would be their absolute minimum pay raise for the second year, and when the union leadership offered 12.5 in a bargaining session many of the printers were amazed and shocked that Harvard had refused even to consider 15 per cent...
...players and owners are at odds on other issues as well. The players want veto power over trades (in major league baseball, ten-year veterans who have played for their team for five consecutive years can reject trades), higher minimum salaries and an end to curfews and fines. At week's end the strike seemed far from settlement. A similar strike over the pension fund four years ago collapsed when the then champion Kansas City Chiefs decided to play in the All-Star game. This year most of the Dolphins decided to boycott. When the All-Stars refused...
...notes would be sold not by the bank itself but by its parent holding company, Citicorp, thus neatly getting around federal regulations limiting the interest that banks-but not bank holding companies-can pay to small savers. For a minimum $5,000 initially, a saver could buy notes on which the interest rate would be changed twice a year. Each time it would be set one percentage point above the going rate on Treasury bills, a favorite investment of the rich. Although the interest rate on Treasury bills can go down as well as up, even in an inflationary environment...