Word: minimum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wadis, is suffering from a summer drier than most. The Fertile Crescent in its entirety received a record low amount of rainfall this past winter. Hydraulicists constantly make guest appearances on radio and television talk shows, issuing warnings about some obscure "red line" threshold of water supply, a minimum that we are precariously nearing. Here, in the privileged middle-class West Jerusalem, with a lifestyle and surroundings very much like Boston, these warning fall on deaf ears. And, for many of the Palestinians, especially the inhabitants of villages that draw their water from wells, statistics and fancy talk about drought...
STATINS When combined with a low-fat diet, these cholesterol-lowering drugs can cut the risk of death from heart disease 40%. Statins interfere with the liver's ability to make cholesterol, keeping LDL (bad) levels to a minimum while boosting levels of HDL (the good stuff...
...only action the University is taking to try to assess its labor practices. In addition to pursuing the data-collecting initiative, the University also appointed an interfaculty task on employment practice in April, partially in response to the Living Wage Campaigns effort to lobby for a minimum $10 an hour wage for all Harvard employees...
Guided and trained by GTZ, Germany's technical-aid agency, and INRENA, Peru's natural-resources institute, the Matsiguenkas hope to profit from tourism without destroying their own fragile way of life. Contact between tourists and themselves is kept to a minimum; photography is curbed; and tour-group access is limited to certain locations and times of year. The operation is run by a small group of Matsiguenkas, some technical advisers from GTZ and a hired administrator who collects payments. Profits go entirely to the Matsiguenkas to be used as they choose. So far, that has been mostly for medicines...
...demand is for the exotic "with the minimum of hassle," in the words of Richard Hefler, senior vice president for sales and marketing at INTRAV, a St. Louis, Mo., travel packager. The company will have a Concorde supersonic jetliner scoop up 96 passengers in New York City and Las Vegas on Dec. 24 for a round-the-world trip. Rather than stuff passengers into a tour bus to take them to the Taj Mahal, INTRAV has chartered a jet that will get them to the palace in the early morning and back to a four-star hotel in Delhi...