Word: minimum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After four days of dispute, the meeting in Caracas broke up with hard-line hawks such as Iran, Libya, Nigeria and Algeria planning to charge a minimum of $28.50 per bbl. and perhaps $30 or even more, while other cartel members said that they intended to go no higher than $24. All in all, the rises add up to a big increase over the OPEC official maximum of $23.50 that had prevailed since summer, the $18 that Saudi Arabia, the cartel's leading producer, had posted until two weeks ago, and the $12.90 that OPEC averaged a year...
Electricity monitors. Even if a homeowner has reduced electricity consumption to a minimum, there is always an other watt or two that can be saved. That is the theory behind electricity monitors, which use microchip technology and digital display to calculate the dollars-and-cents value of the electricity being used in a house at any given moment. The idea is that once a homeowner sees what he is actually spending for electricity, he will become far more conscientious about turning off lights and, in the case of electric heat, lowering the thermostat. According to tests by the University...
...strikes every three years when the union contract came up for renewal that led steel customers to buy still more imports to hedge their supplies. But when steel imports rose from a 13.4% share of the domestic market in 1975 to 17.7% in 1977, the Carter Administration imposed minimum or "trigger" prices for imports based on a complex formula. Imports have fallen off to 14% in this year's first nine months, and the trigger price was reduced 1% to $347.55 a ton for the third quarter. But with the yen weakening almost 23% against the dollar this year...
...women fit their parts, least of all Sweeney, who is not at all the forceful, bravura wonderwoman Aristophanes had in mind for Lysistrata. She seems intent upon getting through her lines as quickly as possible with a minimum of enthusiasm or voice inflection, and in this respect she succeeds. Despite her best efforts, Christopher's speech and actions as Kalonike more closely resemble those of Long Island than of classical Greece while Boghossian's Myrrhine, who has a crucial scene with husband Kinesias (Joe Smith), is far more coy and less brazenly seductive than Aristophanes intended. About the only female...
Berrios said the U.S. Congress controls the Puerto Rican minimum wage and labor laws and added "They even tell us what kind of sausages we can eat. That's a colony--the U.S. commands everything in Puerto Rico...