Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minimum wage in 1965 had kept up with inflation in this country, today it could be $6.25," he said...
...When a minimum of twelve "blind letters" have been gathered, the senior faculty of the department vote on the recommendation...
...really want to work, we may be able to hire some of you if Dick Armey's dream of abolishing the minimum wage is realized. We'll have plenty of jobs for you then--and at reasonable wages. $1.25 per hour for landscaping work. We'll pay up to $1.75 an hour for maids, $2.00 an hour for sweatshop work. If it doesn't raise too many nasty allusions to slavery, we'll pay $2.50 an hour for small Black children that we can wrap our feet in when we're sick or to keep us warm at night...
...personal fortune of $400 million and providing his investors, whose assets total $2.6 billion, with huge profits. Unlike mutual funds, which handle investments of varying sizes from an unlimited number of clients, hedge funds are private limited partnerships of no more than 99 investors, usually with a minimum stake of $1 million. As such, they are not subject to the same regulations imposed on mutual funds by the Securities and Exchange Commission. By selling short securities whose prices they expect to fall and taking highly leveraged positions, hedge-fund managers can take bigger risks and, they hope, reap bigger rewards...
...will also make anybody doing business with Japanese banks very cautious." In addition to pleading guilty today to doctoring records to hide years of losses, Iguchi also pleaded guilty to conspiring with Daiwa's senior management to conceal the losses. Iguchi faces 90 years in jail and a minimum fine of $3 million...