Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the nation, students left high schools and universities to march alongside the workers and shout their own protests against an antiquated and inadequate education system. In Rome and Bologna, students occupied the universities to drive home their point. Next came the turn of state employees to demand more pay and social benefits. For 24 hours, trains halted, mail distribution stopped, schools were deserted and telephone service snarled. Reflecting the crisis of confidence, capital once again began to flee from the country, and the Milan stock market slumped to a three-year low. In the middle...
...must live with their own strong right wing, are unlikely to vote all those reforms. But perhaps, he reasons, there finally are enough Christian Democratic leaders who are sufficiently disturbed by last summer's upheaval in France and the drift toward disillusionment in their own society to demand that after years of do-nothing government, the next one do something. It will not be a century too soon...
...days when Harvard and Yale dominated college football went out with raccoon coats and bootleg booze. Ivy League schools do not hold spring practice; they are sparing with their athletic scholarships, and they demand more than passing grades in physical education. But each fall, when Harvard and Yale clash in the climactic contest of the Ivy season, for thousands of loyal alumni-and for tradition-minded fans everywhere-the game is still The Game...
...sales. Trucking companies are pressing manufacturers for ever larger, more efficient, maintenance-free trucks and are willing to pay a higher initial cost to keep upkeep down. Last year, some 100,000 of the over-13-ton class were sold, mostly by Harvester, White Truck, Mack and CMC. The demand is such that their number is expected to triple...
...economy turns out greater and greater mountains of goods, the demand grows for trucks to haul them...