Word: minimum
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...addition to free product samples, the exhibition also offered free concerts featuring Inclined, Eve's Plum, Tribe and Get Set V.O.P. Also featured were lesser-known bands like Greta, who happily signed autographs after their performance. The bands set up with a minimum of fuss and an informality which set the tone for the night. The casual atmosphere made it extremely easy to talk to the bands. Also, the fact that one of the members of Greta had performed in a dress didn't hurt either...
What many Americans fail to realize is that immigrants contribute to demand and supply. Furthermore, by taking jobs that some Americans find unsavory, they make the economy more efficient. That is not to say that immigrants should be relegated to minimum wage jobs; in many cases, the children of the first generation to enter the nation's public schools enter college and become more successful than their parents. While demagogues quickly point out that immigrants contribute to the demand for resources and social service programs, they never mention the boosts to human capital that immigrants have and can contribute...
Guarantee a generous, minimum package of health insurance to all Americans. The 37 million people who now lack health insurance would be covered either through their employer (85% of the uninsured are workers and their dependents) or through expanded welfare schemes. The basic package of benefits would be comparable to that offered by most major corporations and would include extra benefits for primary and preventive care. Well-baby visits and annual physicals, for example, would be covered with no out-of-pocket cost. The U.S. is the only industrial democracy that does not provide such universal coverage, a situation that...
...idea-starved industry, the club comics bring some important assets. Even without acting credentials, they know how to get laughs. Often they have developed a stage persona, or an attitude, or at the very minimum a few well- tested gag lines. Yet delivering one-liners is not the same as creating a character. For every comic who has made a successful transition to prime time, there are others (Jackie Mason, Richard Lewis) who have been sabotaged by their own limitations or by the rickety contraptions built for them...
...liberal arts education needs to uphold minimum standards of civility but also deliberately keeps those standards at a minimum. It demands that a person respect another person's right to express his opinion but demands no respect for the opinion itself...