Word: minimum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...budding consumer culture has produced nothing but frustration. While shopping for goodies for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, consumers encountered shops in the capital filled with a dazzling array of hitherto unknown products, from kiwi fruit to Tabasco sauce. The trouble is, prices are so high that the minimum monthly wage of about 15,000 rubles does not even cover the cost of a kilogram of high-quality smoked salami, which sells for more than 16,000 rubles in one downtown Moscow gastronom store...
...user of my computer program. And it's this simple: if you have an AT&T Universal MasterCard, as 11 million of us do, and if you pay your balance in full each month, there's no interest charge on cash advances. Just a 2.5% service charge, with a minimum of $2 and a maximum...
...counties to find full-time work or a job-training program within 30 days after they enter the welfare rolls. Cash benefits will end entirely after two years. Georgia has just adopted a more gradual measure that refuses benefits to any able-bodied recipients who turn down a minimum-wage job. But since its exemptions include anyone caring for a child under 14, among many others, it will end up applying to less than about 6% of the roughly 120,000 adult Georgians on welfare...
...have helped fuel the petition campaign for a measure titled "Three Strikes and You're Out." The California initiative, whose language is similar to a bill recently adopted in Washington State, triples the sentence of a violent felon convicted for the third time, effectively jailing him for a minimum of 25 years. Says its coordinator, Chuck Cavalier: "We had tremendous support before the Klaas case, but ((since Davis was captured)) our 800 number has got so many calls we blew out the voice-mail systems." (Not everybody is signing up, however. State assemblyman John Burton notes, "I don't think...
...honest belief that their own lives were in imminent danger. If the two juries are faithful to Weisberg's instructions, the best either brother can hope for is a finding that they had genuine but unreasonable fears of danger -- and involuntarily slaughtered their parents, a verdict that carries a minimum sentence of two years and a maximum of four...