Word: minimum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...council pays Melendez $7.53 an hour for 20 hours a week, but he works a minimum of 24 hours each week. He also works 20 a week as a research assistant for a Harvard professor...
...this age group to be married to employed black men earning above poverty incomes." Some partly blame a welfare system based on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which often makes it financially disadvantageous for a man to stay at home. In California, for example, a person in a minimum-wage job would gross about $580 a month. Factoring in Social Security deductions, food stamps and other benefits that would go to a typical worker with a spouse and child, the family would get a monthly income of about $737, that is, $246 per family member. If there were...
...that enlightened mass education could help banish venereal disease, prostitution, masturbation and sex outside marriage. The notion of "scientific" sex education arose as a way of deflecting the curious from actual sexual behavior. Instruction, said a 1912 committee, "should aim to keep sex consciousness and sex emotions at the minimum." Then, as now, there were heavy implications that parents, particularly impoverished ones, could not be counted on to teach restraint to the young...
Ever since, Iraq has been waging a slow-paced defensive struggle, relying on its air force to strike at Iranian targets. In the process, Iranian oil production has been reduced over the past year from 1.6 million bbl. a day to less than l million bbl., the minimum thought necessary to sustain Tehran's war effort. President Saddam Hussein, who invaded Iran in September 1980 out of fear that Khomeini's fundamentalist Shi'ite revolution would spread to Iraq, where the Shi'as constitute more than half the population, has little choice but to fight on as best...
...enforce regulations on secrecy without a degree of surveillance unsuited to an academic institution, its policies will have little effect unless they are backed by a peer pressure that can result only from common understandings built through informed discussion. Of necessity, moreover, the rules the University adopts only define minimum obligations. Each professor has a personal responsibility to decide what further forms of self-restraint are advisable. Hence, the standards individual faculty members set for themselves are likely to be as important as the rules the University promulgates...