Word: minimum
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...Michael G. Thevis, 46, who once described his Atlanta-based $100 billion-a-year empire as "the GM of pornography." Thevis controlled one of the nation's largest networks of adult bookstores, X-rated movie theaters, and peep-show machines. Seven months before, Thevis had escaped from a minimum-security jail in New Albany, Ind., while serving 8½ years for arson and interstate transportation of obscene material. He was held without bail; police also arrested a companion, Anna Jeanette Evans, 40, who was waiting for him outside the bank, and charged her with aiding a known fugitive...
Supplies of no-lead have been particularly tight because refiners find it costly to switch to lead-free production, and difficult to turn out fuel that meets the Government's minimum octane standards and still allows the new cars to run smoothly. To encourage increased no-lead output, as of Dec. 1 the Department of Energy will allow refiners to pass more of the actual costs of producing gas on to consumers, which could mean a further increase in prices from 2? to 4? per gal. In the past year, the average price at the major companies' stations...
While there were many individual changes, last week's voting did not substantially alter the political lineup. The party in power usually suffers some reverses in off-year elections. But the Democrats, moving quickly and adroitly to exploit popular dissatisfaction with their own economic policies, kept losses to a minimum and remained in solid control of both houses of Congress. They stayed in command of 32 statehouses and both houses of at least 29 state legislatures. But the Republicans scored significant gains, showing that the endangered par ty can still make a comeback. When G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock...
...surroundings. In China, the Intercontinentals will all have different designs that match their neighborhoods. The Chinese themselves, says Intercontinental Chairman Paul Sheeline, want modern hotels, "but they don't want them to have what they consider to be unnecessary facilities." Most of these, however, are what Westerners would consider minimum requirements for civilized travel. So the company compromised: it gave up on nightclubs, but insisted on providing bars, small swimming pools, modest health clubs and perhaps a couple of tennis courts...
...efforts. They wipe the window furiously with a cloth only slightly more ragged than their clothes; this five cents means a lot to them. Times are bad now for black South Africans. Unemployment has reached an all-time high, though no one has exact figures; and there is no minimum wage for most of the jobs blacks can do. 80 per cent of black South Africans fall below the poverty datum line, the absolute minumum standard of living. A third, smaller boy, his elbows poking through his man's-size shirt, runs up to join the other picanins...