Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accepting this premise, the White House, along with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, has been in no mood to yield to the North Vietnamese demand that the U.S. halt all bombing of the North as the price of advancing the Paris negotiations. Rather, Washington insists that Hanoi make some parallel gesture. "All they have to do," said Defense Secretary Clark Clifford last week, "is get word to us that they have reduced the level of combat and will continue to reduce the level of combat, and that that constitutes a de-escalatory step." What Washington wants is private or public...
...hand, if the Ibos are decimated and permanently embittered, the federation may be doomed in another way. Nigeria's rulers are talking unity, while at the same time conducting a form of tribal warfare that may make unity impossible at best and unnecessary at worst. By granting Ojukwu his demand for airborne relief, the Nigerians would show minimal concern for 8 million people who remain, by their own definition, Nigerian citizens...
...create the risk of a mini-recession. To offset such economic drags as a sharp drop in steel buying, a leveling off in defense outlays and the anticipated decline in consumer spending, the Administration counts on a major rebound in housing construction. Yet despite a huge backlog of unfilled demand for new housing, the result of the 1966 credit squeeze that crippled the industry for a year, no such upturn seems likely unless interest rates continue to fall...
...foundation made a grant of $200,000 to New York's Lincoln Center to pay for well-known artists to design more elaborate posters than might otherwise have been used. Soon, requests for quality posters began pouring in from colleges, museums and other institutions. To meet the rising demand, Mrs. List last fall joined with Boston Art Dealers Barbara Krakow and Portia Harcus to set up HKL, Ltd., a commercial company that accepts commissions, supplies the artists and supervises production at half a dozen different printing workshops...
...often he will need AHF, or just how much. His expenses have run as high as $150 in a week, but for him and most other patients they average about that per month over the long run. Prices are expected to come down when the supply increases. The demand is there: U.S. hemophiliacs need the AHF from 1,000,000 pints of blood each year...