Word: demand
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...addition, the union leadership will demand wage increases and "more professional administration of the dining halls," says Bozzotto. "Right now, the management of the dining halls has no rhyme or reason, and we want a consistent program for all the dining halls, not dependent on the personality of the individual managers...
...robust as it seems. The Department of Commerce reported last week that the gross national product expanded at a 3.7% annual rate during the first quarter. The strong showing, though, was partly caused by an increase in unsold business inventories. This inventory buildup, the result of sluggish consumer demand, could be a sign of an underlying economic weakness...
...Massachusetts, and Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. The Democrats, many with large Irish-American constituencies, maintain that the I.R.A. is waging a legitimate struggle for political freedom. Helms cares little for the I.R.A., but worries that the new treaty would set a precedent, allowing Communist governments to demand the extradition of anti- communist guerrillas...
...leave. Explains George Miller, a professor at American University of Beirut, who has lived in Lebanon for 40 years: "We stayed until there was no longer any hope." Those who remain behind bemoan the university's deteriorating academic standards and the lawlessness of campus life. "We've had students demand better grades at gunpoint," laments a Lebanese professor...
JAPAN. Despite assurances that winds would carry the radiation past them, the Japanese found fallout last week throughout their country. Slight amounts were detected in sources ranging from Tokyo rainwater to fresh milk. Though the government advised people that no danger existed, demand for powdered milk soared, and some stores ran out of it. "We are not going to drink milk as long as it is contaminated," said one frightened homemaker. Yet most Japanese showed little concern. "There is no sense of a growing crisis here," said Noriaki Hosokawa, 32, a Tokyo importer of windsurfing equipment. "Not a single friend...