Word: minimum
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...long time and not try to unseat the present management. Levin in return would leave the poison pill in the corporate medicine cabinet and let Seagram place one or two members on Time Warner's 15-person board, giving Bronfman a strong voice but not control. At minimum, Levin will need to have at least some preliminary answers next Thursday for stockholders attending the annual meeting and asking what goes...
...Under existing fda regulations, foods like jelly beans and soda can legitimately be labeled "healthy," since they're low in fat and cholesterol. No more, though: the agency has declared that the word can apply only to foods that are low in fat, sodium and cholesterol and contain minimum amounts of actual nutrients...
...Belgians ruled their African colony indirectly. Based on their notions of racial hierarchy, the Belgians upheld the dominance of the Tutsi, with their lighter skin and aquiline, almost European features, as their agents governing the majority Hutu population. Sometimes they gave the Tutsi privileged access to education; a minimum height was set for the sons of chiefs who wanted to go to school, which effectively disqualified many of the shorter Hutu. The Tutsi received the best jobs in the bureaucracy, even as the colonists drained the wealth from the country. "That really began to stratify society," says John Lamphear...
...Suspend players who would be suspended under the current rules, but make it a five-game minimum...
...minimum, these figures suggest that a disproportionate number of inhumane beatings are dealt out in the United States, not Singapore. More ominously, it appears that while in Singapore they beat up the criminals (and there are far fewer than here), in the U.S. the criminals beat up the rest of us. Ultimately, it seems that our justice system yields the far greater inhumanity, a consideration apparently overlooked by human rights groups such as Amnesty International, which focus instead on the punishment the guilty criminal receives...