Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...random requirement does not single out athletes, artists or any other students as earlier proposals of quotas did. Limiting the random factor to 25 percent kept the restriction on student choice at a minimum, since 15 to 20 percent of freshmen face random assignment even in the current choice-based system...
...frontline for tutoring once the students come to the country," says Project Literacy Co-Chair and tutor Aaron Richmond '91. "There's just a huge group clamoring to get in, learn what they need and then move on. The practical reality is that they at least need the minimum training; it's sad that we can't keep them longer...
...canine breed favored by dope dealers because of its alleged propensity to clamp its powerful jaws on humans, Commissioner Stephen Joseph has proposed to the city's board of health that pit bull owners be required to have their dogs tattooed, muzzled in public, insured for a minimum liability of $100,000 and, yes, photographed for city records. If Joseph's proposal becomes part of the city code, no new pit bulls will be allowed on New York streets after the existing ones die. But opposition to any restriction on a specific breed of dog is likely to be strong...
...cachet in Europe," says David, the band's co- founder and lyrics writer. "In America we were has-beens." David puts the band's long history together with its newfound fortune and reckons, "If we have a hit album this time, it will work out to a minimum wage over the last eight years." Adds Don: "We had to go outside of America, to a place where black music and older soul singers are revered. Remember, not only were these guys black in a supposedly white band; they didn't even sing in the modern black style. They were...
...countryside, the rebels woo the peasants by striking at wealthy | landowners. During the recent coffee harvest, the F.M.L.N. decreed that growers should pay their pickers nearly twice the legal minimum wage, which can be less than $2 a day. When some landholders refused to cooperate, armed guerrillas hijacked truckloads of newly harvested beans and redistributed the stolen booty to the pickers. Other landowners who balked at paying a "war tax" to finance the insurgency have been burned...