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Word: minimum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board process, might choose not to act on their own behalf. It was my goal at this panel to inform women about the people and procedures involved in pursuing the formal administrative process so that they might, if they wished, be able to use that process with a minimum of anxiety and apprehension...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Date Rape and Formal Action | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

True? The answer to that is another question: Do you believe in free-market capitalism? Do you think the best recipe for prosperity is minimum Government interference in the economy? Devotees of the capital-gains break usually claim to be enthusiastic free-marketeers. Let us take them at their word. Does the capital-gains break make sense from a free-market point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Capitalist's Guide to Capital Gains | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...each offense according to its severity; this can lead to situations in which an armed assault can draw the same penalty, say 15 years, as a simple robbery. In recent years, moreover, disparities in the punishments prescribed for various crimes have been exaggerated by legislators' tendency to enact mandatory minimum sentences, particularly for drug crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Wrath of Maximum Bob | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

These quality performances are enhanced by Bishop's direction: she manages to move nine characters around with a minimum of upstaging, and she skillfully juxtaposes the inner feelings of the characters with what is occuring on stage. A second-act candle-light scene is especially eerie; the shadows of doubt we harbor about each character are mirrored in the flickering shadows on their faces...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: And Then There Were None | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

...accept our responsibility having accepted the loans, but if we wanted to pay the debt now, [it would mean] that every Ecuadoran...will have to work two years of minimum wage to clear it," Parodi told approximately 100 people gathered in Starr Auditorium...

Author: By Dhananjai Shivakumar, | Title: Ecuadoran V.P. Speaks on Debt | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

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