Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...India, which lived for 19 months with sharply curtailed civil liberties, the campaign has been surprisingly free, with a minimum of violence. But concern grew among opposition leaders when officials in Delhi ordered some 200,000 central reserve police and members of the paramilitary border-security force to the countryside-a week before the elections-officially to maintain law and order. As Janata leaders quickly noted, their mere presence may inhibit efforts to get out the opposition vote...
...MINIMUM TAX law on the highest incomes has been greatly tightened. It applies to income of the rich that would otherwise escape through loopholes-the excluded half of capital gains, for instance. Cost to taxpayers: $900 million. The tax itself has been raised to 15% from 10% and applied to many more kinds of earnings. One example: an investor who last year lowered his taxes by writing off a share of an oil and gas venture's "intangible drilling costs" may now have to pay 15% on part of the formerly shielded income...
...Murray Weidenbaum, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, thinks that the President should have provided incentives to businessmen for on-the-job training of youths. More basically, he complains that Carter "has failed to come to grips with the fundamental factor behind teen-age unemployment-the minimum wage law." The AFL-CIO is now campaigning to have the $2.30-an-hour pay floor raised to $3.00. Such a step could well price even greater numbers of unskilled young people out of the job market and into the street. Says a Florida social worker who tries to find...
...Thirty-three round-trips home each year at public expense, plus a minimum of $2,250 or 10% of the total cost...
...Buckminster Fuller, now 81, whose brilliantly engineered structures were used as radar domes on the arctic DEW line after World War II, to demonstrate conclusively that for the material used they are the strongest and most efficient way to enclose space. Moreover, they cover maximum volume with minimum surface area. Ergo, it takes less energy to heat or cool a spherical structure than the rectilinear box of traditional architecture and consumer preference. Since nearly all dome homes have big skylights, lighting costs are also lower...