Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very hard with the alcohol policy to throw successful big parties," Mandery said. "The council is in a tough spot. I think it's going to demand a lot of creativity...
...began working with the Urban League in Boston in their demand that Blacks be hired on construction sites at a proportionate rate to whites," he says. "We were a liaison between the Black construction workers and the companies. A lot of students involved were unwilling to risk suspension for the cause when it got to that point...
...Government Department follows theUniversity guidelines, but, according to HeadTutor Mark A. Peterson, faculty in the departmenthave had an increasingly difficult time findingenough University graduate students to teachsections. "It is a tough situation we face now,"Peterson says. "Our demand and supply situation isso out of sorts...that flexibility is limited anda professor often doesn't have as much leeway ashe or she would like" when hiring a teachingassistant...
Students, though, haven't been timid about shaping the University. One might wonder what students at the Law School hope to learn if they believe themselves as able as the faculty to choose the school's leader. Yet students occupied part of Harkness Commons last month to demand that Derrick Bell, a Black professor who later showed up at the sit-in with wine and brie, be given the post. The occupation ended when the administration announced the students' agenda was consistent with the school's aims--but stood firm and refused to promise any of several demanded appointments...
Gordimer warned of creating a literature that condescends to "the masses." What is necessary is "the creation of a demand which can only be satisfied later," Gordimer said...