Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...renewed notoriety, the New York City publishing house Atheneum rushed into print with his memoirs, An American Life: One Man's Road to Watergate, which were originally scheduled for release in mid-July. When Magruder surrenders next week to federal marshals who will escort him to a minimum-security prison in Allen wood, Pa., the 338-page volume will be on sale for $10 in book stores along the East Coast...
...defeat, has promised that the left will give Giscard "neither a pause nor a truce." He plans to force the President to make good on every one of his promised social reforms. This could be troublesome, for Giscard's reforms-among them, an immediate increase in the minimum wage from $226 to $260 a month -would cost the French economy more than $4 billion a year at a time when the country is already borrowing heavily just to pay for its Arab...
...give some idea of how far money goes in France: a color TV costs a minimum of $700, a medium-sized refrigerator at least $240, and a washing machine $220. A quart of milk costs 28? to 32?, while medium-quality steak goes...
...first time that Sowle, 46, had had to deal with student disturbances. In the wake of the 1970 Cambodian invasion and the deaths of four students at Kent State, he had successfully steered Ohio U. through the chaotic aftermath with a minimum of violence. But the recent events, he said last week, were "the straw that broke the camel's back...
...Department's No. 2 antitrust man, "can be viewed as little more than cartels." Added Keith Clearwaters, a deputy assistant attorney general: "There are no defenses that will save them." The target of that legal wrath is the practice among many state and local bar associations of establishing "minimum fee schedules." Now the warnings and threats have ended in action: the Justice Department has charged the Oregon State Bar Association with an illegal conspiracy "to raise, fix, stabilize and maintain fees charged for rendering legal services." Added Clearwaters last week: "There will probably be other cases as well...