Word: demand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to calling for the end of racial violence and the prosecution of the assailants of Darryl Williams, the Jamaica Plain High football player shot in Friday's incident, the group will demand the resignation of James Kelly, a member of Boston Mayor Kevin H. White's administration and an opponent of busing for desegregation of the city's schools...
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...Soviet relations is not only that there are two competing bureaucracies with their assumptions and guesses; there are also conflicting conceptions of negotiation. Americans tend to believe that each negotiation has its own logic, that its outcome depends importantly on bargaining skill, good will and facility for compromise. Critics demand greater flexibility. No position is ever final. The other side has the maximum inducement to stand rigid to discover what else we may offer...
Nicholas Deak, president of the Deak-Perera Group, a major U.S. gold dealer, believes the bulk of the buying can be traced to three sources. Demand from the Middle East remains strong, he says, not only from OPEC governments eager to protect their oil profits from U.S. inflation and the decline of the dollar, but also from peasants and small traders for whom gold remains the most popular portable security. Demand from Europe is accelerating because inflation there is rising. Bullion fever has now spread to Switzerland, reflecting fears about inflation even in that land of granite-hard currency...
...most visible demand for gold is coming from the U.S. Newspaper ads urge readers to bring their gold heirlooms in to dealers; panning for gold along rivers is again a popular hobby, and old gold mines are being reopened. In Atlanta, dentists report that patients are asking for the return of their gold inlays after they have been replaced with crowns. Large crowds and ever ringing phones are making the normally sedate quarters of bullion dealers look like bookie joints...