Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conceive of any circumstance in which you would agree to their demand for a change in government...
...labor contracts affecting half of the country's 7,000,000 industrial workers expire before year's end. >In West Germany, where the booming economy of the Wirtschaftswunder has kept employees content for years, garbage collectors walked out in Munich and Nürnberg last week to demand better pay. Earlier, there were almost-unheard-of wildcat strikes by West Berlin bus and subway employees, Ruhr steelworkers and Saar coal miners. > In France, the trains, subways and buses began rolling again after a week of wildcat strikes. But almost immediately, unofficial stoppages happened at random from the Channel...
...demand the total dismemberment of Project Cambridge. This does not merely mean that Harvard disavow all institutional connections to it. though that is surely a part of our demand...
...cars by 3.6%, an average of $108 an auto. But beef is going down; wholesale beef prices are off as much as a dime a pound from their highs of last June. Official Government forecasters figure that the high pressures in the money market are finally beginning to reduce demand and, in turn, production. Economic growth, now only 2% at an annual rate, will stay below normal well into 1970. Prices, however, seem unlikely to level off until next year at the earliest. Recession probability: zero this month, but increasing in the months ahead. Winds are changeable, and the overall...
...clash between those two viewpoints kindled tensions again last week in Pittsburgh, where 3,000 demonstrators paraded through downtown streets to demand more construction jobs for Negroes. "Freedom! Freedom!" chanted the marchers, as they raised clenched fists, waved black flags and circled building projects manned by unions whose memberships are almost exclusively white. More than 1,000 white demonstrators-clergymen, suburban housewives, students and even a few businessmen-marched along with ghetto militants...