The vote on policy changes was triggered by a minimum number of comments required on proposed changes.
We offer consumers great values by guaranteeing businesses a minimum number of customers.
In addition, judges would be required to have a minimum number of years as a qualified lawyer under their belts before being appointed.
Some coaches require a minimum number of hours, advises Mr. Nemko.
Just under half of the women politicians reported that their parties had adopted some kind of quota system designed to ensure they fielded a minimum number of women candidates in elections.
The Virginia-based company, owned by Time Warner, has agreed to abolish the requirement that its staff achieve a minimum number of "saves" in order to earn a bonus, but stopped short of admitting any wrongdoing.
We scrubbed our database, and I created a list of worthy recipients in Excel, including only businesses who had a minimum number of trusted reviews and averaged a high enough score (some things shall remain secret).
Others cannot qualify for the fixed-rate "prime" loans they need, or they are prohibited from refinancing by prepayment penalties meant to assure the lender that the borrower's high payments would continue for a minimum number of years.
Under the No Labels suggestions, the President would have the right twice a year to propose legislation to Congress that would have to be voted up or down without amendments, provided that it had a minimum number of sponsors from each party in both Houses of Congress.
But Army General Tommy R Franks, who heads the US Central Command and enforces the southern no-fly zone, recommended reducing the number of patrols but maintaining a minimum number to check possible movements of Iraqi troops towards the Saudi and Kuwaiti borders.
Ultimately this bag of tools may hone a software package down to its minimum number of steps.
For example, a 20% rise in the minimum wage might result in a 10% increase in total employee compensation at companies that hire a large number of workers at the minimum wage.
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There are a number of arguments proferred in favour of a rise in the minimum wage.
For instance, Lexus keeps the number of dealerships at a minimum, so dealers sell more vehicles per store than any brand but Toyota (see table, below).
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Patients at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor are being advised to keep the number of visitors to a minimum as they could pick up the bug on the wards.
The plant reduced the number of expatriates to a bare minimum on more than one occasion.
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George O'Grady, the chief executive of the European Tour, was delighted at the news, particularly as the minimum required number of events for a player to compete in has risen from 12 to 13.
Trying to limit the cost of subsidising jobs by imposing a minimum wage on employers, as Labour proposes, would merely reduce the number of jobs that employers will be willing to offer the long-term unemployed.
They previously needed a minimum of 4, 000 students but that number has been reduced to 1, 000.
"We hope the number of casualties would be at a minimum, " Sinnadurai said.
The SEC declined to comment on the minimum number of Twitter followers needed for a company to safely tweet its earnings.
The minimum number of signatures required to launch a referendum has been cut, but it is still a tenth of the electorate, on average.
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He also said the embassy's strong defenses worked as they were supposed to, with the "minimum number of casualties" for such a grave attack.
Linsey White, of the Association of British Insurers, said proposals to help reduce insurance premiums included introducing a minimum one year learner driver period and reducing the number of young passengers new drivers can carry.
It was already known that six is the minimum number of water molecules needed to form a three-dimensional structure.
Essex's target of 338 was from a minimum of 78 overs, but they had to settle for the safety-first approach following the dismissal of number five Ryan ten Doeschate.
Venter's firm, Synthetic Genomics, is figuring out the minimum number of genes one would need to create a useful microcreature.
However, there is worrying evidence that a significant number of employers are not paying apprentices the relevant minimum wage rate.
If regulators set this as a minimum, it would encourage smaller patient trials of a greater number of novel drugs.
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However this vision of inescapable and linear decline leaves out a number of important details that, at an absolute minimum, complicate the picture.
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