Word: minimum
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...winning teams matched against other winning teams. A team win would require two-and-a-half points with an individual board win equal to one point, a draw equal to one-half point and a loss equal to none. Two wins and one draw on individual boards was the minimum for a team...
...economy under control, the junta has devalued by more than half the wildly inflated escudo, and ordered huge price increases for such necessities as sugar (400%) and cooking oil (500%), which had been subsidized at prices far below their market value. It canceled the inflationary (300%) wage increase in minimum salaries approved by Allende, but instituted a system of bonuses and benefits that has increased the minimum income to $42 a month...
...Harvard defense struck first midway in the first quarter. With the defense shutting down the Cornell attack to such a degree that the Big Red was allowed only 13 plays in the first three series (one over minimum), middle guard Sandy Tennant broke through on a fourth-and-one situation to block Cornell kicker Bernie Szynalski's punt and tackle Bob Shaw recovered for Harvard to give Harvard possession on the Cornell...
Last week, by an overwhelming 82-8 margin, the Senate voted to halt the environmental excesses of strip-mining. Sponsored by Washington Democrat Henry M. Jackson and Montana Democrat Lee Metcalf, the bill requires the Federal Government to draw up tough minimum standards for surface mining within six months after enactment of the legislation. After that, the states have another 16 months to put the standards into effect; the Federal Government will enforce its regulations in any state that takes inadequate action. Among the Senate's ground rules...
...minimum, they have violated department rules that ban any potentially prejudicial comment. The President has said that he will fire anyone found to have disobeyed that regulation. Leaky prosecutors may also be liable to contempt of court penalties for compromising the secrecy of a grand jury. The secrecy requirement dates back to common law and is designed, among other things, to protect the innocent from publication of unsubstantiated charges and to prevent the guilty from fleeing or tampering with witnesses. Technically, the Agnew case did not go to the grand jury until two weeks ago, and the majority of leaks...