Word: minimum
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...center of the turmoil was H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman, once the crewcut, fiercely loyal chief of staff to President Nixon, now serving a minimum one-year term at California's Lompoc prison farm on a conviction of perjury in the Watergate coverup. Last May Haldeman had fumed as he watched his former chief imply in televised interviews with David Frost that he might have saved his presidency if he had just had the heart to fire earlier his two closest aides, Haldeman and Domestic Adviser John Ehrlichman. Haldeman vowed then and there to turn his pro-Nixon memoirs into...
Another complicated aspect of the dodge involved a relay system of accounting by which one company fed another its paper assets before the end of its fiscal year. This enabled each of the shells to meet the country's minimum conditions to be treated as a firm and thus qualify for the favorable tax rates...
Thompson also achieved his second goal, a tough new crime bill that imposes minimum sentences for serious offenses. He asked for mandatory imprisonment of from six to 30 years for what he called "Class X crimes," including rape, arson, hard-drug transactions and armed violence of any kind. The legislature watered down some features of the bill but basically gave him what he asked for. Says Thompson: "It's time to put to rest the notion that prisons are for rehabilitation. When they can accomplish that end, it is good. But the primary purpose of prison is to separate...
...through high school with a thorough knowledge of their times tables, but not much more, will be disappointed if one key proposal passes. In what one CUE member said was a move to satisfy the University's "science people," the draft plan calls for each student to demonstrate a minimum degree of competence in mathematics...
...increase, which amounts to a $400 boost in tuition and a $100 hike in room and board costs, will bring the total term bill fee to $7500. The fact that the Corporation wanted a bigger increase--but still settled for what administrators call "the minimum needed to break even"--is hardly a consolation...