Word: minimum
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...enforcement of minimum drinking age laws should go beyond catching individual offenders and should ensure that establishments do not profit from such sales...
...exactly one employer, the New York Stock Exchange, in his entire 36-year career. The Big Board chairman gave a hint last week to what's been keeping him there. Mindful of the exchange's push for more openness among its members, Grasso disclosed that he earns a minimum $2.4 million annually. Very nice, that. But he also announced that he would cash out close to $140 million in deferred pay and retirement benefits this year...
Highways, suburbs, the minimum wage, U.S. economic might, NASCAR, assembly-line robots, the global economy...
Such plodding travel could yield remarkable science. NASA geologists sifted through 185 possible landing sites for the twin spacecraft, looking for ones that present a minimum of obstacles and a maximum of potential clues to the all important question of whether water has existed on the planet. The rover Spirit is thus headed for a formation known as Gusev crater, about 15º south of the Martian equator. Orbital photography has mapped a sinuous, 559-mile channel that slices into Gusev from the southeast and looks for all the world like a riverbed. "The water should have cut through that crater...
...That, plus the fact that, so far, no Democratic presidential candidate has really made an issue of the trade deficit with China?not even Dick Gephardt, who was never slow to tackle the Japanese. True, Gephardt has called for an "international minimum wage," which free-trade purists (I am one) see as a disguised way to make poor countries' exports more expensive on international markets. Similarly, at the Democrat contenders' debate last week in Albuquerque, N.M., Vermont Governor Howard Dean said "we cannot continue to ship our jobs to countries where they get paid 50? an hour...