Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started out as an archconservative, urban-based organization. Over the years, the leadership turned more moderate and began wooing voters in the countryside and in non-Hindu states of the south. In an attempt to win over Indians of all language communities, the party even toned down its longtime demand that knowledge of Hindi be made a primary qualification for government jobs...
CONSIDER the human machine in middle age: atrociously maintained, rusty from disuse. None of its parts-the bellows, the tubes, the pump-function as efficiently as they once did. The muscles have degenerated into blancmange. If, in an emergency, the demand for air rises abruptly from the idling requirement of six to eight quarts a minute to 100 quarts or more, the maw gulps like that of a beached carp. The heart throbs about two to three times its customary rate, pumping blood through pipes thickened by sedimentary deposits and grown inelastic with...
Adult Agitators. There was no common pattern in the outbreaks. Three of the eruptions hinged partly on the impatient demand of Negro students that the schools introduce courses in Negro culture and history-something that the administrators were already planning to do. In other cases, adult agitators fanned disturbances. Philadelphia police charged the local leaders of CORE and the Black People's Unity Movement, a small group promoting "black pride," with inciting the riot there. Parents of Negro students at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High sought the help of Ron Karenga, leader of the black separatist "Us" organization...
...settlements actually put little new pressure on copper's Big Four-Anaconda, Kennecott, Phelps Dodge and American Smelting & Refining-to come to terms with 60,000 strikers. Both agreements involve local operations and thus do not touch the strike's key issue: the 26 unions' demand for a basic change in the bargaining rules. The unions, backed by the full power of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., demand the right to bargain as a coalition within each company, and to set common expiration dates on all contracts. "This is a strike," said A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany recently, "that...
...President Chiang Kai-shek gave the 11 project his support, businessmen and government officials spent 18 months studying a stack of reports from steel experts. Several factors argued with some persuasiveness against the effort. Among them: the proximity of Japan's burgeoning steel mills and the relatively small demand for semi-finished steel on the island, now amounting to 500,000 tons a year...