Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sadly, the drums and fifes of the right's march drown out the very voices that might contribute most to a conciliation of the nation's conflicts. The problems confronting America today all demand hard thinking and constructive debate. They will not be solved by the nightstick or by nostalgia for more tranquil times. Moreover, a determinedly retrogressive body politic could inflame forever the sores that merely irritate it today...
...union sent its leaders back into negotiations to demand a two-year contract with 20 or 25 cents in raises each year. They also wanted longer vacations and night differential pay for janitors. Finally, they wanted the University to pay for any increases in the cost of Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance, should one materialize...
...halt is less precisely stated. Essentially, it rests on the negative fact that no one in Washington has any idea if and how a halt would influence the Paris talks. Pessimists in the intelligence community are convinced that a unilateral U.S. concession would simply lead to another difficult demand by Hanoi. The North Vietnamese might well, for example, insist that since the U.S. and North Viet Nam had finished the pressing business between them, the U.S. could now go talk to the National Liberation Front about the rest of the war. That the U.S. is not eager...
...Pinpointing a problem that plagues his business, Homer writes: "The president of your bank hates bonds. The mere sound of the word starts up a dull ache in his solar plexus. This makes him fidget. Bonds, he knows, are things the bank has to buy when there is no demand for loans; they are also things the bank has to sell when there is a demand for loans and interest rates are high. Somehow or other this usually involves a loss." As for coexistence with the stock market, writes Homer, "the bond market provides 95% of the external long-term...
...that matter, Author Duffy fails to establish that her hero has much spark himself ("He still hadn't learned not to make that kind of demand, not to ask for a relationship of dependence rather than one of equals face to face"). Even so, British critics have compared the author to Virginia Woolf, noting that both have the knack of tuning the physical world precisely to the pitch of the characters' emotions...