Word: minimum
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...implement them better. He supported moves to water down major civil rights legislation. He pressed for the impeachment of William O. Douglas, the Supreme Court's staunchest defender of civil liberties, primarily because Douglas had written an article for a magazine considered pornographic. Ford opposed Democratic bills to increase minimum wage levels; during his vice-presidential confirmation hearings last year, the AFL-CIO totaled up his 25 years of voting and came to the conclusion that he voted against workers' interests 94 per cent of the time--the third best anti-labor record in Congress. And as a self-proclaimed...
Rossetti said the Pewter Pot employees' wages are "above the minimum wage for restaurant work...
...sentenced each defendant to ten years for each charge, with the terms to be served concurrently. The judge recommended that they serve a minimum of five years. He dismissed a fifth charge of trespassing...
...defendants received the minimum sentence for each charge. The maximum sentence for kidnapping alone is life imprisonment...
...NBER has classified five post-World War II business contractions as recessions. No single standard determines that judgment, but the five drops do have some common denominators. Each lasted at least nine months, during which real G.N.P. fell at least 1.5% and industrial production dropped a minimum of 8.1%. Also, the jobless rate rose at least 2.3 percentage points, to 6.1 % or more, and employment declined in more than 80% of the 30 major non-farm industries that NBER statisticians watch closely...