Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcries, however, were couched in rhetoric that reflected personal anguish and disappointment at the decision. "You are not speaking as our Pope," protested Jesuit Philosopher Norris Clarke before a cheering crowd of 1,000 at a Fordham University symposium on the encyclical. "We can't hear you. We demand that you do not speak to us this...
...compensation back in 1950 amounted to $1.91. Be sides a three-year pay increase of 440, the new pact calls for broadly improved pensions, a new $30-a-week vacation bonus and an eighth paid holiday. The two sides agreed to submit one of the thorniest problems, a union demand for expanded incentive pay, to arbitration. For the 400,000 steelworkers affected, the contract was especially lucrative when compared with the wage-and-benefit gains of about 3.5% won in the last steel negotiations in 1965. Since then, the Johnson Administration's onetime 3.2% wage-price guidelines have taken...
...people shall decide" became Sánchez's campaign slogan. As it happened, the decision was made by the party leaders whom he had antagonized. Sánchez called for open gubernatorial party primaries, but his demand was denied. The P.D.P. convention was rescheduled a month earlier to forestall popular debate, and the Governor's forces charged that the selection of delegates was rigged. Last week, in San Juan's Hiram Bithorn Stadium, party regulars, under the impassive gaze of Luis Muñoz, jeered Sánchez, then overwhelmingly nominated Luis Negrón Lopez...
...glaring inequalities-the "half-truths and hypocritical evasion" of Soviet propaganda notwithstanding. In Russia, he says, "there is still great inequality in wealth between the city and the countryside, especially in rural areas that lack a transport outlet to the private market or do not produce the goods in demand in private trade. There are great differences between cities with some of the new, privileged industries and those with older, antiquated industries. As a result, 40% of the Soviet population are in difficult economic circumstances...
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorched. That is to say, husbands who spend the torrid days of summer in air-conditioned offices reached by air-conditioned cars, buses or trains find it difficult to say no when overheated wives demand air conditioning at home. As a result, cooling units have become the smartest-selling home appliances after refrigerators and washing machines...