Word: minimum
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...University's two top governing bodies, the Board is responsible for approving major decisions by its counterpart, the Harvard Corporation. The 30 Overseers, who meet a minimum of five times each year, serve on visiting committees throughout the University, advise the president and influence Harvard's long-term policies...
...still be struggling to survive in a thatched hut like the one in which he grew up with 11 brothers and sisters. But at 44, Goh owns a comfortable five-room apartment and lives, like 87% of his countrymen, in a government housing project. He has three children, the minimum politically correct number preferred for the well- educated by a eugenics-inspired government: he received a $12,500 tax credit for the third birth, and his wife, who helps out in his business, got an additional 15% annual tax cut, because she had advanced past high school. He runs...
Happy Part features Jim (Jason Cooper), an ex-con who did time in a minimum-security prison for parking violations; his son Steve (Alex Burger), who is trying to break into professional bowling to win back his deadbeat father's affection; and Maxine (Susan Swearingen), Jim's lovelorn but down-to-earth girlfriend...
Ever brazen, Saddam Hussein dispatched Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to the United Nations to demand an end to sanctions. With maximum bluster and minimum facts that left members rolling their eyes, Aziz accused the Security Council of genocide and portrayed Iraq as victim. The council countered with a litany of violated agreements, thwarted weapons inspections, abuses against Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims and, as Aziz was reminded, the continued suffering of the Iraqi people because Saddam is diverting food shipments to his security forces and the military. After two days Aziz left empty-handed...
...saddest truism in Russia is that life is harder now. Not that ordinary citizens ever lived very well, but most could afford the basics. Today soaring prices and an almost totally worthless currency have reduced even that way of life to a bare minimum. Look at what the unfulfilled promise of reform has brought the Vaktin family...