Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memo states that because of the People's Republic's split with the Soviets as well as internal dissention resulting from the Cultural Revolution, "the time has come for us to resort to such tactics as would entail the minimum sacrifices, take the least time and insure the greatest effect...
...freedoms in abstract terms. We should defend pornography specifically on its merits, on the fact that it represents distinct minority views which have every constitutional right to exist. We should challenge the logic of Chief Justice Burger, who wrote in the new Supreme Court decision, "At a minimum, prurient, patently offensive depiction or description of sexual conduct must have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value to merit first amendment protection." Any depiction of sexual behavior has, at a minimum, serious pshychological value. There is a definite point of view being expressed in pornography, a view about the potential nature...
...Kelman is writing the score for a projected Broadway show and trying for a breakthrough pop song. So far he is ahead in the eye department: he developed a pioneering procedure for cataract surgery (applicable only in special cases) that shortens recovery time from seven weeks to a minimum of four hours. Charlie's always tried for a hit record," said Hamp. "Now he's got a hit operation...
Lately, too, there has been a greater range in the newspaper's tone. John Corry's thrice-weekly column on moods and minutiae of the city is occasionally sentimental, but it is fresh, impressionistic reportage. With a welcome minimum of liberation cant, Judy Klemesrud and Deirdre Carmody have unearthed an impressive number of offbeat stories about how women's lives are changing. Lesley Oelsner has done expert law reporting on such complex issues as court challenges and sentencing and the juvenile justice system...
Last week Long Beach learned the high price of success. No sooner had the N.C.A.A. opened its annual convention in San Francisco than the Committee on Infractions hit the school with a three-year minimum probation in basketball and football for violating dozens of association rules. Among the Long Beach transgressions: moving one prospect's family to a home near the college, offering another money and jobs for his relatives, even repairing one candidate's wrecked car. For Long Beach, probation means no postseason competition or any participation in lucrative TV contracts. The only comfort was that...