Word: minimum
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...patch of lawn in 90 min., how long would it take three men, and would an increase in the minimum wage have an adverse effect on their employability...
...unifier of divergent strains in American political thought. Clinton, Morris said, is "the end product of the debate between Democrats and Republicans this century." He used this Hegelian dialectic to describe Clinton as the modern ideological synthesizer of traditionally Republican ideas (balancing the budget) and Democratic nostrums (raising the minimum wage). But Clinton is not so much the synthesis as the dialectic itself, veering from a massive top-down national health plan to supporting more incremental advances like the portability of health plans. His foxy hedgehogginess lies in finding the golden mean that appeals to voters...
Cleary and Henry promised that Harvard would not take measures on behalf of Title IX that would cut or put minimum roster sizes on men's teams, actions that many other universities have done to make the ratio of male to female athletes more closely resemble the student body ratio...
Blankenship and David were in possession of cocaine, LSD, marijuana and ecstasy. Under the law, Blankenship and David were not subject to any mandatory minimum sentences based on what substances they possessed. However, Blankenship and David were within 1,000 feet of the Peabody Elementary School, which under Chapter 94, section 32(C) of the Massachusetts General Law means they should be serving a mandatory minimum of two-and-a-half years, and it is expressly stipulated that "lack of knowledge of school boundaries shall not be a defense" for those convicted under this statute...
...would have endorsed a harsher punishment as long as they were kept out of prison. We realize that had Blankenship and David been, for example, poor residents of the projects of Cambridge, their sentence may not have been as lenient, and they would perhaps have been given the mandatory minimum, but unless these hypothetical dealers had a prior conviction of drug dealing, we would not endorse their going to prison either. The Massachusetts law was designed to severely punish people dealing to children, which Blankenship and David were not doing...