Word: minimums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate by a simple majority vote. Against that, Georgia's Richard Russell, strategic leader of the filibuster forces, and Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, even while admitting last week that a change in Rule XXII is probably inevitable, aim at holding it to a near-meaningless minimum. From the battle that will begin next Jan. 7 between those two positions may come a rule allowing Senators to talk lengthily-but not forever...
Home builders long have complained that the Federal Housing Administration's 23 volumes of outmoded and confusing minimum standards have kept them from giving house buyers more quality. Last week, following three years of talking with housewives, manufacturers and engineers, FHA Commissioner Norman Mason came out with his answer: a one-volume rule book that for the first time in FHA's 24-year history pulls together, updates and clarifies the regulations on which FHA grants mortgage insurance for one-and two-family houses...
...statement last night, the five charged that "the HDC has a responsibility not merely to stage a play, but to present a production that will fulfill minimum artistic standards. We did not feel that this production of The Good Woman of Setzuan would meet the HDC's obligation to its audience...
...minimum grades will be necessary for Honors, and the department will allow non-Honors juniors to petition for tutorial on a trial basis. White said that the new policies have been adopted both in accordance with the Committee an Educational Policy's recent proposals and in order to "weigh the student's record in a judicious manner rather than an automatic...
...efforts as a teacher were met either with scorn or indifference. When the team was playing well, Sebbie regarded it as a minimum accomplishment--a shaky assurance that he, or rather Vag, was getting his money's worth. But when they fell behind, Sebbie lapsed into a stupor which added to Vag's depression. For consolation, Vag turned to his fake binoculars...