Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...using the library," Alevizos said, "that they aren't getting good service--if they have to wait more than two to five minutes for a book-- then we'll look into the matter." Alevizos said that Lamont has sufficient funds to hire additional staff if, and when, the student demand requires...
Enunciating Israel's "principles of peace," Foreign Minister Abba Eban made the small but key concession that Israel would not demand face-to-face discussions with the Arabs, until now an Israeli precondition for negotiations. But, insisted Eban, any agreement would have to be signed by all parties. Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad revealed that he would be willing to negotiate with Jarring a "timetable" to put into effect the U.N. Middle East resolution passed last November. In effect, it called for both Israeli troop withdrawals and Arab recognition of the right of every state...
...activists at the bottom are unlikely to achieve the miracle reforms that skeptics often demand, and many a Doer crusade is quixotic-witness those largely unsuccessful if unflagging dreamers who battle against highway billboards, jet sonic booms and all-digit telephone dialing. All the same, big social explosions these days are usually caused by a pile-up of many small problems-nearly all of them soluble by small-scale activism. The fact is that democracy needs Doers at every level. How can the U.S. ensure that there are always enough to go around? Does it develop them? The answer...
This minuscule exercise in social action (only 9,000 corpsmen now serve abroad) is unlikely to supply the demand for activists. There are other sources in U.S. institutions-families, schools, colleges, corporations. All ought to be doing more to spur individual initiative. A case could be made for pitting every teen-ager against physical hardships that build self-confidence, as in t country's several Outward Bound camps, which put boys through summer survival courses. If draft laws are ever changed, dropping out for useful social action would do wonders for jaded collegians. If more U.S. corporations imitated...
...chances are that no one will ever know the exact size of the demand for Doers. How many constructive dissenters, how many self-appointed critics are necessary to keep democracy vigorous? The only answer is that the U.S. needs plenty of them, and that there will never be enough...