Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, with his tweedy jackets and rust-tinted handlebar mustache, Broun is very much the lovable professor. As such, his lectures demand an attentive ear. While the copy of most sportscasters rarely rises above the conversational, his prose is styled after "the measured, galloping elegance of the 19th century sportswriters." As one fan told him: "I just like to close my eyes and listen...
Given the volatility of the stock market and the tremors shaking the dollar, the art market today lures ever more investors. And Sotheby's of London stands ready to meet the demand. In a three-day sale last week, the world's top auction house knocked down 388 impressionist and modern paintings, drawings, and sculptures, including 34 Picassos, nine Klees, 13 Rodins, nine Légers, seven Pissarros, seven Juan Gris. Total gross: $5,374,479.60, or half again the previous record for a single auction, set by Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries (a Sotheby affiliate) earlier...
...help meet industry's need for skilled manpower. With lower defense spending, plus the ordinary growth of the economy, the CEA calculates that the Government will be able to distribute a $30 billion "fiscal dividend" to the nation. Part of it should be lower taxes to stimulate civilian demand, says the council, and part of it should be a rapid boost in federal outlays for education, health, housing, pollution control, highway beautification and the fight against slums...
...spending to add up to "a moderate recession." In any case, the impact of peace will hit industries, areas and manpower unevenly. Many industries likely to lose war business-autos, textiles, rubber, for example-are those that can readily turn to industrial and consumer markets. Automen predict a big demand for cars among discharged veterans, and the housing industry, now confronted with another pinch in its mortgage-credit lifeline, foresees a major upturn fueled by lower interest rates if peace comes. Such an upturn would also lift sales of appliances, furniture and retail stores...
Among reform proposals were immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition to the draft, and support of certain of Afro's demand...