Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looked at the little one and said, 'Shame on you.' I saw death and I was dead, and I started to call the Lord. I was thinking to myself, 'What a nightmare, oh, what a nightmare!' " A nightmare shared by innumerable others who cannot count on the basic minimum of a supposedly civilized society: personal safety. Says Jim Wilson, a black homicide detective in Harlem: "Anybody should be able to go out on the streets any time he wants...
Haldeman-prison number: 01489-163(B) -and Mitchell - 24171-157-must each serve 30 months before they become eligible for parole. Both men are doing their time in minimum security prisons-unfenced facilities with no armed guards and no violent convicts. The two camps have acres of grassy lawns. Mitchell's borders a golf course and a river in which convicts can fish. Haldeman's sits at the edge of a blossom-filled valley devoted to the commercial production of flower seeds. Both prisons have outdoor playing fields and recreational periods that stretch from...
...week before receiving his assignment, but is expected to be given clerical duties in the prison where his color photograph was once prominently displayed beside Nixon's. The wardens in the two institutions insist that neither man will receive special treatment, but Mitchell was routed away from the minimum security camp at Allenwood, Pa., where he normally would have gone. Reason: Allenwood is now overcrowded, and federal officials feared they might have trouble protecting him from inmates...
...wife had decided to make a voluntary payment amounting to approximately 15% of their net taxable income "because of my strong feeling that a person should pay some tax on his income." White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz explained that Carter adopted the 15% figure because it is the minimum required by law on income such as long-term capital gains...
...laws in 31 states that class the machines as bicycles or "motorized bicycles" instead of motorcycles. Result: moped owners in about half of those states do not have to register their bikes. In many states they do not even need drivers' licenses. In most states, the minimum age to drive a moped is 15 or 16; Indiana, Ohio and South Carolina impose no minimum at all. No state's moped law requires crash helmets, or calls for liability insurance -recognition that mopeds are only slightly more hazardous than ordinary bicycles. The biggest danger comes from the fact that...