Word: minimum
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...inconvenience WHRB may cause Apley Court residents, but, unfortunately, these are the problems inherent in living not 500 yards away from a radio transmitter. In a sense, it is like Wigglesworth residents and their troubles with the subway underneath. We do everything we can to keep interference at a minimum, including continuous monitoring of o our signal to make sure that we are operating by FCC regulations...
...hottest product away to any angst-ridden Harvard student just for the asking? After the public relations disaster surrounding Intel's Pentium chip and its inability to perform division on certain rational numbers, Microsoft is making an extra effort to ensure that Windows 95 goes to press with a minimum of bugs. Windows 95 contains a slew of new features-features that could easily translate into new headaches for users; Microsoft wants to avoid problems as much as possible by testing the product on willing guinea pigs...
...there is a certain minimum standard, a combination of not only fiscal but social values upon which we must agree. Republicans enjoyed so much success in the most recent elections not solely because they oppose higher taxes and more government spending. Social issues such as crime, poverty, abortion and gun control all played a key role in the minds of voters. All are issues upon which conservative policies...
Alluding to Krueger's work without naming him, the President said last week that the ``weight of the evidence is that a modest increase [in the minimum wage] does not cost jobs.'' That may be so, but Clinton's calculation was primarily political. ``We need the energized support of minorities and unionists, our core group of voters,'' says a Clinton adviser, ``especially if there's another three-way race...
That view seems shortsighted for two reasons. First, the Democratic base alone won't re-elect Clinton, and the swing voters he most needs disdain old- fashioned liberal solutions like raising the minimum wage. Second, the President's real problem involves a perceived lack of resolution and stamina. If Clinton lets his proposed hike die quietly and holds instead to his original diagnoses and prescriptions (which were right then and are right now), he might come across more like a President than a perpetual candidate--and possibly get the four more years he covets...