Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...city, haunted by memories of a grim 900-day Nazi blockade in World War II, is how to store food supplies for the coming winter. Rationing was imposed last week on meat products, sausage, butter and cooking oil to provide Leningrad residents with what city officials called a "guaranteed minimum" of scarce staples. In one downtown meat store, a middle-aged woman surveys refrigerator cases, empty of everything but boxes of sugared cranberries. "It's unbelievable!" she exclaims. "People continue to produce things, but there is nothing to buy. It's those democrats on the city council. All they...
...convince Saddam Hussein that we are willing to use force to kick him out of Kuwait seems to be the only way to persuade him to leave Kuwait peacefully. Therefore, to ensure minimum possibility of an actual war, we should show full support for our present policies and make Saddam believe that we American people are united behind our president...
...Boitano held out for two years while pondering how to put together his own ice show nouveau: a romantic and theatrical evening with a minimum of props and kitsch and a maximum of athletic daring. Along the way came a TV special for ABC and another for Home Box Office that won three Emmy Awards, both starring his title-winning counterpart, Katarina Witt of what was then East Germany. The TV shows taught Boitano that he and Witt, although trained since early childhood as solo skaters, could enjoy the different discipline of working as a pair and, more important...
...average daily minimum wage of $3.55 is so inadequate that many working- class people have deserted the formal economy to try their luck as street vendors. Salinas' policies have cost at least 1.4 million jobs. Warns a longtime member of the P.R.I.: "There's a difference between being in a hurry and being precipitous...
...collected nearly $89,000 for various youth programs. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, inmates sell pizza in the visiting room to raise $2,500 a year for residents of a juvenile home. At Soledad and San Quentin in California, inmates sort discarded eyeglasses to give to the poor. Female minimum-security inmates at the the D.C. Correctional Complex make heavy gray- green blankets for the homeless...