Word: minimum
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...Black students may face charges of high treason: upon their eventual return to South Africa, Townsend said, since any form of protest by South Africans against apartheid is illegal. The penalty for such action is a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of death...
...Early Action Man, when he calls minorities, he is the Affirmative Action Man Sometimes he is subtle, hemming and hawing at his motives until the listener gets the point and hangs up; other times as way my case, he is quite straight forward, making his pitch with a minimum of ceremony Nearly always, however, he gets the same answer...
...book was actually stitched together by Writer William Novak (for a flat fee of $45,000) after some 20 tape-recorded sessions with his subject. Most of the syntactical switchbacks and impulsive rhetorical questions have been edited out. Most notably, his abundant profanity was reduced to a tangy minimum, although at least one "f---" stayed in. But the voice is unmistakable. In print, as in person, Iacocca works hard to please: he has produced several different books in one, alternately sentimental and nasty, inspirational and hard-boiled, by turns a conventional autobiography, a gossippy cuss-and-tell expose, an executive...
Governor Toney Anaya of New Mexico is expected to sign a bill within two weeks requiring his state's drivers to buckle up or face a minimum fine of $15. New Mexico will thus join New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan and Missouri in mandating the use of seat belts, and at least 30 other states are considering a similar move. The rush toward seat-belt legislation stems from a regulation issued last year by U.S. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole. She decreed that by 1990 all new cars must be equipped with so-called passive restraints, either protective air bags...
...role will be not just to earn the trust of labor leaders, but to "create as many jobs as I can. That is the fundamental goal of this Administration." That apparently means Brock will follow the Administration line against closed-shop legislation and will push to abolish the minimum-wage requirement for teenage workers...