Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...track surface traffic. For unexplained reasons, the white centerline lights embedded in the runway?a further aid to pilots when visibility is poor?were not operating. Inside the Clipper, Edward Hess, 39, a food broker from Phoenix, thought, "I don't know much about this, but this is below minimum." In fact, the degree of visibility remained an important point for investigators...
...quid failed to produce the anticipated quo. The House, in a stunning rebuff to the unions, last month rejected the common-situs picketing bill, which would have allowed one striking union to shut down an entire construction site. The same week, the White House came out for a $2.50 minimum wage-50? less than the AFL-CIO had demanded and only a 2? increase over the present minimum. "Shameful," spluttered Meany...
Philip Glass: North Star (Virgin Records). Nothing happens in the usual sense. Glass composes by an additive process. Short melodies are repeated dozens, even hundreds of times, while new elements are gradually introduced and events are kept to a minimum. The composer writes for amplified keyboards, winds and voices, using as tools of his craft a pulsating rhythm, overlapping figures and a moving chromatic bass line. The overall effect is soothing, with strong yet not dogmatic liturgical overtones. Fans of German rock groups may spot similarities between Glass and Kraftwerk. Those classically oriented will think of Johann Pachelbel...
...currently pays its employees $54--31 per cent--less than the national average weekly wage for unionized textile workers. Thousands of J.P. Stevens workers have been disabled by byssinosis (brown lung), a disease caused by exposure to cotton dust levels three times as high as those permitted under national minimum health standards...
...legitimate businesses. Public pressure is mounting on the state regulatory agencies to crack down on fraudulent land schemes. A task force of FBI agents, postal fraud inspectors and SEC investigators has begun to probe. Says Babbitt: "Right now we are about two years into what I think is a minimum five-year...