Word: minimum
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Long and dusty experience has shown that several thousand acres is the minimum necessary to make farming pay in this semiarid region. But when homesteading began here just after the turn of the century, 320 acres was thought to be a bountiful sufficiency. Or so the railroads' seductive brochures enthusiastically proclaimed. To ambitious city dwellers in Boston and Albany, and London and Cracow, it all made glorious sense. The 320 acres of government land were there for the taking, free to anyone enterprising enough to pay a $22 filing fee and build fences. Hard work would turn a clerk into...
...especially considering the percentage it offers its other employees. As Mallinckrodt Professor of Applied Physics William Paul articulated, "It seems anomalous to me that we regard as a gain to recoup a five percent contribution...when members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) receive a minimum 6.5 percent...
...display his legislative mastery from the Senate floor, Panetta, Stephanopoulos, Sosnik, legislative assistant John Hilley and Gore chief of staff Ron Klain plotted ways to box him in on issue after issue. Coordinating with Senate minority leader Tom Daschle and his consultant, John Podesta, they decided to link the minimum-wage increase, which Dole opposed, to every bill that he supported--most notably an immigration-reform package. Dole pulled the bill so minimum wage wouldn't come to a vote. He thus appeared to have a soul made of leather. But the Democratic plan worked too well. It drove Dole...
...first meeting Penn outlined the issues of greatest concern to voters. The economy, cited as the pre-eminent concern of 60% of voters in 1992, was mentioned by only 20% of his sampling. At the top of Penn's list, along with chestnuts like crime prevention and the minimum wage, were such family issues as banning tobacco advertising aimed at children, imposing order in the schools, providing for aging parents and lengthening maternity leave...
...only incumbent Senator up for re-election who voted against the welfare-reform bill, thus earning him the sobriquet "Senator Welfare" in Republican attack ads. Wellstone, for his part, portrayed the former two-term Republican Senator as a puppet of special interests who voted against an increase in the minimum wage and for a pay raise for Senators. The incumbent, whose crusade for stricter ethical standards in Congress has endeared him more to his constituents than to his colleagues, does not apologize for his reputation. "That's my record," he says. "That's a Minnesota tradition. Call it progressive; call...