Word: minimum
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...minimum, public policy should focus on three goals...
...money generated by a spectrum fee on broadcasters could go a long way. Today annual gross television-broadcasting revenues in the U.S. are conservatively estimated at about $25 billion; by itself, a bare minimum of 1% of broadcast-television revenues would pay annually for $250 million of children's programming; 3% would provide $750 million, a sum with which Americans could transform not only children's television but childhood itself...
...criminal consequences. Under federal law, if you are caught with 5 grams of crack, you will, at minimum, be slapped with a five-year penalty. You must be caught with at least 500 grams of powder cocaine to earn a comparable sentence. Whether intended or not, the effect of this 100-to-1 ratio is that "it punishes poor people and people of color more heavily,'' says Nkechi Taifa of the American Civil Liberties Union...
Fortunately, the awful overuse of "Information superhighway" references seem to have been at a minimum at Harvard during the past few years...
Proposition 48 sets minimum high school gradeand SAT score requirements for athletes to beeligible during their first year...