Word: minimum
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Dukakis attributes Kerry's momentum to his focus on education, health care and the minimum wage, where the senator has staked out liberal positions...
...order to reduce the "cycle of dependency" of American citizens on the government, Browne proposed the "reduction of government to an absolute minimum...
...bipartisan support. Tempered by the public's wrathful reaction to their record in 1995, Gingrich's troops have lately been compromising to get bills passed and signed by the President. In August, that strategy produced laws reforming welfare, making health care portable from job to job and increasing the minimum wage. And just last week Republicans agreed to meet Clinton's demand that they restore the $2.3 billion they had earlier cut from education spending. If what people are asking is not to tear down the House but to make it perform, it may not make a huge difference whether...
...West Coast, unions and consumer groups have put two versions of a Patient Protection Act on November's ballot. Propositions 214 and 216 would require the state to enforce minimum staffing levels for licensed personnel at all medical facilities and would protect whistle-blowing health-care workers from being fired. Similar measures have been introduced throughout the country, from the U.S. Congress to the Cincinnati city council, but nowhere does the battle loom larger than in California. A coalition led by the health-care industry and the Chamber of Commerce has mounted a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to defeat...
...five student artists. Each "piece" will begin with a common sound, such as applause, and then bury that sound under various electronic mutations with the help of a surge machine. The original sound will then slowly, over the course of the composition, be revealed and become identifiable. A minimum of five such pieces will be offered in the exhibit, and participants will be able to freeze sections of these individual compositions and then combine any number of them in order to create a sound of their own. Costanza-Chock explains, "It is all about collage, taking pieces from different places...