Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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July 31: North Vietnamese denounce Rusk, return to insistence upon N.L.F. demand...
...power, the union felt endangered. Not only would decentralization break up the school system, many teachers reasoned, it would also break up the union, which would have to negotiate with 33 local school boards. To many teachers and indeed to many members of other unions, the Negroes' demand for community control-and the city's limited compliance-was nothing less than union busting...
...virtue of his color, Kilson's opinions have been accepted as authoritative on black issues at Harvard. I believe Kilson is using this fact to give his opinions undue weight. This sort of misuse of his racial image is at least as "disgustingly anti-intellectual" as the alleged demand that only blacks should teach courses such as Social Science 5. It should be clear from this point forward that Kilson's views are not particularly black--he seems to have much more in common with his old-line colleagues in the Government department than with us. Jeffrey P. Howard...
...Demand for Unity's stock was so great that the initial capitalization, set at $1 million by the State Board of Banking Corporation, was raised to $1.2 million and stock requests totaling $44,000 still had to be returned. Guittar recalls one rich white businessman who wanted to purchase $400,000 worth of Unity stock. He was refused because the board of directors had established the policy of scrutinizing all requests over $10,000 and set a $25,000 maximum. "We wanted to avoid any controlling interest," Guittar explained...
...Unity should have been able to capitalize at $450,000, not $1 million. "They figured we wouldn't be able to meet that and eventually fade into the woodwork," Sneed said of the board's action. "But we wouldn't be stopped by the restrictions they put on us." Demand for Unity stock was so great that eventually its board of directors requested an increase in capitalization to $1.2 million...