Word: minimum
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...think you’re looking at a minimum of a $100,000 entrance fee” to the race, said a politician who declined to be named because of his working relationship with many of the candidates. According to their most recent state campaign financial filings, Galluccio has about $9,000 in cash on hand, and Wolf has about...
...overall parity has been repeatedly confirmed by independent audits (including a recent study). Recently, this grievance has morphed into something marginally more sensible: The assertion that workers are “basically getting parity to crappy wages.” But by what standard is more than double the minimum wage “crappy?” The campaign cherry-picks comparisons with the some of the U.S.’s highest-paid security guards (including Stanford’s over $20 an hour starting salary) and asserts that Harvard is paying below the “market...
...TRAVEL 19 trillion Number of frequent-flyer miles awarded by U.S. airlines in the past 25 years, a distance equivalent to circling the globe 760 million times 14 trillion Minimum number of miles passengers have yet to redeem...
Affordabletermpapers.com charges a minimum of $9.95 per page for a custom-written essay. Rush jobs cost $24.95 a page. The site, which dutifully states that its papers should be used for "assistance purposes only"--uh-huh--guarantees that customers won't run into trouble with plagiarism or they'll get their money back and a free rewrite. There are hundreds of online paper mills like this one, catering to all the stressed-out, disaffected or just plain lazy students with Internet access and a credit card or money order. But just as the Internet has made it easier for kids...
Created in the early 1980’s to maintain minimum levels of academic excellence in the Ivy League, the AI combines one’s highest SAT I and SAT II scores with high school class rank in order to assign each applicant a value ranging from 60 to 240. The league then sets three main controls: first, it establishes a universal floor, below which any candidate must also possess extenuating circumstances in order to be admitted; second, it mandates that the average AI of a given year’s aggregate recruiting class must fall within one standard...