Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with voters that he has even disavowed his own proposals simply because Clinton accepted them. Five weeks ago, he suggested that he and Clinton should get together to negotiate the budget, then he backed off when the White House accepted. Three weeks ago, he offered separate votes on the minimum wage and the gas tax, and reversed himself as soon as Democrats went along. And last week he was still gathering wedge issues while he might. "I assume there's a pile of them out there somewhere," he told TIME last week. "I don't know where. I assume there...
Currently the upstart brokerages account for less than 1% of all the 640 million shares traded daily, but they also account for nearly 100% of the anxiety that the big Wall Street firms are feeling as technology reduces the complex world of securities to its barest minimum--carrying out a transaction. Wall Street's role then becomes something on the order of checkout clerk. This comes at a time when more and more investors are buying stocks. At one point less than 5% of Americans owned stocks; now more than...
When friends ask me such a question, I am forced to respond that it very much depends on the nature of the student. For those students who are selfmotivators, who are interested in taking advantage of all that the institution has to offer, who wish to go beyond the minimum that is demanded of them, Harvard is unsurpassed as an undergraduate institution. For others, however, Harvard can be a rather undemanding place and indeed, structures its undergraduate curriculum in such a way as to actually impede intellectual development...
...Serbs. Partition could also lead to the eventual involuntary dismemberment of Bosnia, with each of its larger neighbors, Croatia and Serbia, annexing a portion of the country, leaving a weak, landlocked Muslim mini-state around Sarajevo. Such a result would threaten the fragile stability in southeastern Europe. At a minimum, Albania, Bulgaria, the Former Macedonian Republic of Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey would all be affected...
...favor or oppose a proposal to raise the minimum wage from $4.25 per hour...