Word: minimum
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Cole's artwork matches the unpretentious ambitions of the story. She draws her characters with an absolute minimum of detail. They are all essentially sexless blobs with singular attributes - glasses or animal ears - to distinguish between them. The polished grade-school style emphasizes the immaturity of the characters in a clever way. Everything is rendered as outlines, with no shading, like everyone is getting blasted with white light. Cole's relaxed, confident pace develops "Never Ending Summer" into a neat little view on the vulnerabilities of human interrelations...
...process is about political deal-making...if we just gloss over and do the bare minimum, that’s not going to go,” Dahroug said...
...year later, the group increased the minimum class rank and standardized test scores—psst…otherwise known as the Academic Index—necessary to gain entrance into an Ivy League institution. This was a good decision, because, as we all know, grades and test scores can tell us everything about an individual...
Before coming here, Kessler attended boarding school in Connecticut. As at Harvard, many of the school’s buildings were old and not handicapped-accessible. “I guess I’m kind of used to the bare minimum,” Kessler says. “But that doesn’t mean it’s not annoying and not frustrating.” Kessler’s biggest frustration has been difficulty in accessing sports facilities and friends’ rooms. She found a way to participate in crew this year, but she can?...
...give illegal immigrants guest-worker status, appears to be going nowhere. Conservatives spurn it as a reward for illegal activities, while liberals complain that it doesn't go far enough. A welfare-reform bill, which would toughen work requirements, got caught in a tussle over whether to raise the minimum wage. Meanwhile, even with gasoline prices rising, the energy bill that was once a top priority for Dick Cheney is now limping along; some Democrats are trying to break it up to pass the salvageable parts, like measures aimed at preventing another blackout. The one major bill that has moved...