Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bryant has worked as a community activist in education for years and ran a strong but unsuccessful race for the same job two years ago. He may very well be one of the most productive members to serve on that traditional stepping stone to higher office. At a minimum, he will add legitimacy to the school committee's positions, especially when it deals with the federal judge who ordered the busing and still controls the system...
...armed guard in the tower, the massive barbed-wire topped wall. To the right is the maximum end, where brutal conditions recently precipitated yet another hunger strike by inmates. Reach-Out participants head to the left, to what, in a maximum security prison, is euphemistically known as the "minimum" end because prisoners are not locked in their cells all day and prevented from taking part in programs. (Euphemism has taken hold in the prison bureaucracy--inmates are officially called "residents," the warden a "superintendent...
Candidates, whether they are on a slate or not, always campaign for the "number one vote" since two-thirds of the ballots generally don't transfer. There is a minimum of strategic maneuvering because on one ever understands all of the options. Whatever else it does, proportional representation insures that the bookies will never make a killing...
...broad presidential authority to reorganize the Executive Branch and to create a Department of Energy, the first Cabinet addition since 1966; a quick tax cut to stimulate the economy; a strip-mining bill; new clean-air provisions; increased price supports on wheat and corn; a hefty increase in the minimum wage; a limited program of public works jobs. In foreign affairs, Congress voted against automatically cutting off U.S. aid to nations that violate the basic rights of their citizens; it left these decisions in the President's hands. In matters of defense, it went along with Carter's unexpected decision...
Moynihan said "it is wrong to assume that terrorism can be inhibited by modes of punishment or by raising the minimum wage." He added, "The only thing to do with terrorists is as quickly as possible to find them and kill them...