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For the first time, we have determined the minimum surface area required for fingerprint scanning in order to achieve a level of security that is roughly comparable to the security achieved with a six-letter password.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

Don’t let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs,

I felt they acted frivolously because entry into the European Union implies a minimum of understanding for the others,

Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.

Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.

Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]

Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

A minimum of 15 tournaments doesn't tell you who the best players in the world are. It's something new, the idea is good, but I have some concerns with it.

A minimum of 23 advisory programs were included in the analysis each year. A total of 41 programs were included for at least one year. The results for 1995-2003 were released in earlier reports, while results for the 2004 crop year are new.

The king has only one choice -- accept the reality and postpone the municipal elections as it alone would create a minimum ground for a dialogue with political parties.

The market needs at least a minimum of three 350,000-barrel-per-day refineries to comfortably meet and keep up with the pace of demand here in the U.S.,

The market was very comfortable with the minimum price.

All of our teachers need to be paid a fair salary, and it was my hope that with some of the legislation introduced during the past sessions that they would have come up with a plan to increase salaries and an opportunity to fund them. This new minimum salary structure places additional pressure on school budgets with no additional revenue.

If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.

And a Treasury working paper in 2004 found that a 69% increase in the minimum wage for 18 and 19 year olds in 2001 and a 41% increase in the minimum wage for 16 and 17 year-olds over a two year period had no adverse effects on youth employment or hours worked. In fact hours of work increased for 16-17 year olds relative to other age groups.

The long-awaited downside correction in the U.S. dollar is now underway, and appears likely to continue for the near-term due to extreme institutional and retail investor sentiment readings and unmet minimum measuring objectives based on the greenback's breakdown earlier this week.

The maintenance crews use four-foot thermometers to monitor the mix. We need to reach 130 degrees for a minimum of three days; typically, we've been maintaining 150 degrees. When the temperature drops, it's time to turn the pile.

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

The Republicans are looking after the interests of the wealthiest people in this country and many of us believe that we should be debating what we are going to do to protect the hard working Americans that are making the minimum wage!

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

The real minimum wage is zero.