Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quarter of the bomblets, over four times the official Air Force estimate. Arkin said duds result from a variety of reasons and that their fuse work is often shoddy. He added that the cluster bombs have "Gameboy-like electronics," in an effort to create widescale destruction at minimum costs...
Everyone agreed, Wrinn says, that the filming was completed with a minimum of trouble...
...Alice, L. Frank Baum's Dorothy in her journey to Oz, and the time-traveling earth children who keep reappearing in C. S. Lewis' seven-volume The Chronicles of Narnia. Like them, Harry is young enough both to adapt to altered realities and to observe them with a minimum of preconceptions. Also, the sorcerer's stone in the first Harry Potter book bears an obvious kinship with the all-powerful ring pursued in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy...
...because they are 30 or 40 years old. Yet they go unredeemed. Many of them are tucked in a drawer or safe-deposit box, and the owner, who may have inherited them, has no idea that the bonds have matured. If you own savings bonds, check the dates. At minimum, any bonds that are no longer accruing interest should be converted into newer bonds that do. A government website, publicdebt.treas.gov will help. Or check bondhelp.com run by Dan Pederson, author of Savings Bonds: When to Hold, When to Fold. While checking dates, look at newer bonds too. Consider...
...need a complete cradle-to-grave welfare state, but we do need social programs to be motivated by something other than noblesse oblige. As author Mickey Kaus noted in a New York Times commentary earlier this year, the Medicare program is not charity, and neither is the minimum wage...