Word: minimum
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...19th century mind, with its penchant for the scientific and the mechanical, the camera was the supreme mechanism, a trap for facts. Capable of capturing high detail, operated with a minimum of human intervention, it seemed from the first to have a special purchase on the truth. William Henry Fox Talbot, the Englishman who was one of photography's inventors, was merely summing up what would become the judgment of the day when he called his new process the "pencil of nature...
...attempt were a bitter reminder of an old political truth: he has never been a favorite of Republican conservatives. As President, Bush might have been expected to ignore the demands of a faction that has been sniping at him for years; instead, he has wooed the right, doing the minimum, and sometimes more, to keep it happy. Says Stuart Rothenberg, a political analyst with Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Research and Education Foundation: "He's like the constant suitor. He's always there with the candy and flowers...
...professorship will also increase the number of undergraduate courses being taught in modern Chinese Studies, MacFarquhar said. He said that he favors adding a provision to the chair's description that would require its occupant to teach "at least a bare minimum of courses...
Although MacFarquhar declined to comment on the exact size of the endowment, he said that the minimum amount required to set up a new senior faculty position at Harvard is $1.5 million. That figure was raised to $2 million in July, but the increase did not affect the new chair because negotiations began in the spring of 1988, MacFarquhar said...
...past four years, out health insurance has gone up form $400,000 to $900,000," Argeros said, "and minimum pay has gone form $4 per hour to $5 per hour." He added that the Coop's expenses this year had risen faster than its sales...