Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Successful as the scheme proved, the oil-tanker business remains a fragile floating crap game in international finance. Fortunately for Onassis, the demand for petroleum imposed by the Marshall Plan, the Korean War and now Viet Nam has kept the tankers cruising through the past 30 years at an ever accelerating pace. He has also been aided along the way by Oilman John Paul Getty, 75, whom Onassis admired and courted...
PROSECUTOR: The defendant has no right to speak of things that have nothing to do with the accusation and no right to speak of the actions of the Soviet government and people. I demand that Defendant Bogoraz [Mrs. Daniel's maiden name] be denied the right to continue...
...four private homes for every new rental dwelling. This year, after seesaw performances during most of the '60s, apartment construction is making a comeback that surprises economists, delights landlords, and quite possibly signals a fundamental shift in how most Americans will choose to live in the years ahead. "Demand is so strong that you could almost leave out the bathroom and rent a new apartment," says California Developer Gerson Bakar, whose 994-unit Woodlake Apartments in San Mateo have a six-month waiting list. Bakar's comment, which drew appreciative chuckles last week at a Las Vegas convention...
...course, many of us on this campus oppose the War, and many of us likewise may consider ROTC immoral. Just as we support many forms of political action to end the War, we have the right and the opportunity to demand a referendum on ROTC special status, to persuade our fellow students that ROTC should not have these privileges, and beyond that, to try to persuade those students who are members of ROTC to resign, and to dissuade others from joining...
Many of these less known prints sell for more than some inexpensive Picassos but only because of the numbers of editions printed, the size, the demand of the piece. The originals are all 'the real thing,' and worth having, though it is unlikely that your seven dollar Dufy of today will hang in the Jeu de Pomme tomorrow...