Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stepping in line with the recent change in the minimum drinking age, Harvard is likely to ban underage drinking and issue special ID cards to 21-year-olds to enable them to drink at parties...
...affable but businesslike Shevardnadze, whom he finds far pleasanter to deal with than the last Soviet Foreign Minister, the glum and wily Andrei Gromyko. The two top diplomats should have ample opportunity to get to know each other better this week, since they are expected to spend a minimum of eight to ten hours together in New York and Washington. Shevardnadze is also scheduled to sit down with the President at a private meeting and a working lunch at the White House...
...even the newest, is filled with constraints. Besides the close quarters and long patrols, there are special precautions that would occur to few civilians. Because the Soviets are constantly listening for audible signals from underwater U.S. craft, for example, submariners must be careful to keep telltale noise at a minimum. This effort includes obvious steps like maintaining complete radio silence. It also extends to such daily details as wearing rubber-soled shoes and refraining from knocking on hatches...
...viewers are not sufficiently hopped up by the credit sequence of NBC's Miami Vice, chances are they will be before the hour is over. The plots whiz by with a minimum of exposition, the dialogue is tough and spare, the rock music almost nonstop. Characters may be shot in lyrical long shots or bathed in moody lighting or framed against semiabstract pastel backdrops. The local color of South Florida is augmented by the local colors: flamingo pink, lime green, Caribbean blue. Miami Vice has been filmed under what may be the strangest production edict in TV history: "No earth...
...Writers Guild of America set new pay scales in March. An author now gets a minimum of $22,801 to do a treatment and screenplay for a low-budget film ($2.5 million or less) and $42,000 for a more expensive film. A rewrite and a "polish" can bring the high-budget price to $61,548, but a writer who has been around commands a good deal more, and fees can rise steadily with each unproduced script. Says a New York author who has sold three scripts: "If you write five a year--I get more offers than that...