Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there's a point at which determination becomes obstinacy"-and that he had now passed that point. Exports were hardly rising, he told his boss, and yet enough wage increases had crept past the barrier of the Labor Party's price and income squeeze so that rising demand kept imports growing at an alarming rate...
Still, few feel that Harold Wilson is about to lose his job. Though the Tories would certainly demand a censure vote, Wilson, with Labor's 80-plus seat majority, would almost as certainly win it. And unlike Attlee, who devalued in 1949 with only a few months of his term left, Wilson has until 1971 before he must call a general election. If devaluation at last begins to set Britain on the road to economic health, Wilson could go to the country by then with less trepidation...
...Debray finally changed his story and, in effect, pleaded guilty. "I want to make clear," he told the court, "that this mission of mine to tell people abroad of the aims of the guerrillas is an integral part of revolutionary work. In this sense, I not only affirm but demand that the tribunal consider me morally and politically co-responsible for the acts of my guerrilla comrades." And so it did; Bustos, his Argentine comrade, was sentenced at the same time to 30 years. After the sentencing, the Bolivian army seemed determined to close the whole Debray matter, which...
...Demand for Exposure. In LIFE, Governor John Connally gives his side of the story of the events leading up to Dallas. Contradicting William Manchester's contention that the President had reluctantly gone to Texas to patch up a local factional quarrel within the Democratic Party, Connally insists that Kennedy went to mend his own political fortunes. He wanted to show conservative Texas Democrats that he did not have horns. Connally, just emerging from a bruising election campaign, was in no mood for a presidential visit...
...professors. Since graduate students also carry much of the undergraduate teaching load at big universities, a depletion of their ranks would force some professors out of their labs and libraries and back into classrooms. That, in turn, might force research-oriented scholars to switch to universities where the teaching demand was not so great...