Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even on the first of the one-a-day flights in DC-10 jumbos, some seats were empty, and later some planes took off with only a third of the 345 seats filled. Yet at minimum, little Laker Airways (eleven jets) has broken the iron grip of the International Air Transport Association (I ATA) on transatlantic pricing* and prodded the industry's giants into offering competitive fares that are lower than they ever thought they would go. Pan Am and TWA actually beat Laker into the bargain-basement blue yonder by eleven days, selling stand-by seating on regular...
...ordinary sphygmomanometers, they work by measuring the surge of arterial blood that occurs immediately after the tightened cuff is slightly released. The major difference is that the precise moment of maximum flow, when the heart is pumping hardest-represented by the upper, or systolic, blood pressure-and that of minimum flow, or diastolic reading, are not determined by a doctor or technician listening for the coursing blood with a stethoscope pressed against the forearm. Instead, that job is done by a tiny microphone in the cuff, which sends its signals to the machine's miniature "brain"-tiny silicon chips...
Lewis strongly recommended a 20-year minimum sentence for the use of a gun in a crime. He said, "My personal opinion is that possession of a handgun during the commission of a crime shows that a person is willing to take a life while committing the crime. That person is very dangerous...
Sirabella said 67 per cent of all union members are in grades one to five. Approximately half of these employees work part-time and all start at a minimum wage of $4.42 an hour, Stevens said...
...letter September 10 stating, "We, the citizens of Boston, pay an oppressive property tax and yet watch our services diminished daily due to fiscal problems. Harvard University, with an endowment of $1.2 billion, owns a considerable amount of land in the City of Boston and yet pays a minimum to the city...