Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of them bused in from nearby offices, and then rode with Brezhnev in a black Zil limousine the 15 miles to the Kremlin. The route, mainly along Lenin Avenue, was decked with American flags, as it had been in 1972, but crowds were deliberately kept to a polite minimum by Soviet police. Less than an hour after they landed, Brezhnev himself was showing the Nixons their suite at the Kremlin residence...
...sporty-looking, high-priced ($6,500) vehicle with several unusual features. Its gull-wing doors need only a 10-in. clearance to open fully, minimizing the risk of side swipes. Polyurethane bumpers are designed to absorb the shock of a 10-m.p.h. collision, double the legal minimum, by receding into the body. The Bricklin's body is made of a corrosion-proof, vacuum-formed acrylic that is impregnated with color (Safety Red, Safety Green, etc.) rather than painted. Bricklin will put the new car, which is being made in Saint John, N.B., on sale in the Northeastern U.S. next...
...sometimes biting but largely admiring and affectionate portrait of the Secretary of State in action to be published August 23 by Little, Brown. Its authors are CBS Correspondents Marvin and Bernard Kalb, and their aim is not history or biography, but careful journalism with final judgments held to a minimum. Marvin, 44, and Bernard, 52, have followed Kissinger around the world for CBS and have had access to a wide range of sources, including Kissinger himself, though the Secretary had no part hi the book's writing or editing. Their account of Kissinger ranges across his full career...
...Mayer group recommended that the U.S. establish a minimum-income floor for all families-an idea that McGovern failed to sell in the 1972 presidential campaign...
Northern ministers now do, as "the unique and authoritative witness to Jesus Christ." The plan also calls for a "fair" representation of women and a 15% minimum quota for ethnic minorities in church administration above the local level...