Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight burst into the open last week as Congress squabbled over a series of deeply emotional issues inflamed by interest-group pressure. Democrats answered labor's call by trying to raise the minimum wage, but Republicans blocked the move on behalf of business leaders. Playing to the pro-life activists, a solid phalanx of Republicans (and a minority of Democrats) in the House passed a ban on late-term abortions, but President Clinton heard from his pro-choice supporters and promised to veto it. Just days before, the House had voted to repeal the ban on assault weapons...
...against Gorbachev in August 1991. Varennikov perhaps forgot how many audiences his party is now addressing and assured an assembly of retired military officers in mid-March that they should not be misled by the moderate propaganda they have been hearing from communist leaders. "You have read only our minimum program," said Varennikov, his dress uniform glittering with medals. "But there is also a maximum program that has never been published. Let's take power first and then agree on how the power should be used...
...existing system, the U.S. EPA sets the minimum standards, while individual states are free to raise these levels. Typically, Harvard deals with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection rather than its national counterpart...
...informal Crimson survey of students has found that of the roughly 150 black students in this year's housing lottery, at least four entirely black blocking groups were formed that contained a minimum of 11 students each...
...will fail them and the prospect of several hundred billion dollars pouring into the stock and bond markets each year. In fact, a massive securities industry lobbying effort has already begun, and at least one investment house is devising new financial instruments that it claims will yield a guaranteed minimum return--just what Congress might require if Social Security were even partly privatized...