Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night, airlifted into the bush. The planes, which are used on other nights to fly in arms and ammunition, land on a lantern-lit stretch of highway somewhere between Owerri and Port Harcourt, frequently under fire from federal ack-ack guns. Because of the high risk, the pilots demand high wages, and the total cost of one shipment of food from Europe can be as much as $25,000. Thus, the relief agencies can afford only one or two a week, and about 1,000 tons of their powdered milk and eggs, baby food and other supplies have piled...
...small crowd. So I should have recognized your name. For all I knew, you were really some journalist "researching" one of those dreadful exposes' of the superrich, such as that new book by Ferdinand Lundberg, which my wife says is so old hat that she may demand her $10 back. On principle, of course...
...always be sinful to have a lot of money, but it is vaguely sinful to enjoy it and unforgivably sinful to do so in public." Of course, this feeling is less a matter of morality than envy. In this wonderfully egalitarian country, the have-nots naturally demand: "Why not me?" And in politics, the voters have come to accept rich candidates, if not actually to prefer them...
Teachers must organize, agitate and, when all else fails, strike, argues Libby Koontz, because "communities recognize power and we must recognize the facts of life." Last year the N.E.A. staged strikes in Florida, Michigan and Albuquerque. She insists that the demand for higher pay does not mean that a teacher is more concerned about himself than his students. "We can be concerned about our kids-and well-paid at the same time. And we're not going to get able young people into teaching unless we improve conditions. All we're saying is that if the schools belong...
...content simply to be the master of a narrow field. He wants to broaden the field-by revamping the technique of bass playing and bringing the instrument into its own as a solo voice. "My intention is to start revolutions," he says. "Most bass music doesn't demand very much, and most bass players don't want to work very hard; they're satisfied to be ensemble players. They've done too little to improve the status of their own instrument...