Word: minimum
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President Bush's campaign operatives coined the phrase Team 100 for donors who contributed a minimum of $100,000 to the Republican Party. Now President Clinton and the Democratic Party have their own Team 100. Eight players have suited up for both...
...large number of people involved and the minimum of four reads of each application makes the process long and labor intensive, he added...
...required to start doing so, would respond by dropping wages by as much as the health-care package is valued by the average employee. In the end, the individual winds up paying either way. Unfortunately, employees whose wages cannot be lowered much, because they make close to the minimum wage, would suffer layoffs...
...from the cash-strapped state sector have been fired, laid off or furloughed at half their salaries. In 1993 in Heilongjiang province alone 2 million workers lost their jobs. Millions of others are being exploited by China's new private entrepreneurs -- overworked, physically abused and paid less than the minimum wage. Working conditions are frequently unsafe; the number of workers killed or injured in mine disasters and industrial accidents has risen dramatically. Illegal use of child labor is rampant...
...that includes about 60 places to be sold at $15. The design is spare, even modest, making no attempt to impose itself on the landscape, and the acoustics are much better than those of the old house. At the opening, the company tried to keep gloating to a minimum. That must have been hard. The management had, after all, opened the only new opera house in England since the first Glyndebourne theater was built 60 years ago. They had done it within their budget of $50 million. Best of all, they had fulfilled their dream without taking a cent...