Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason, the North seemed unable to win in the East. The West was a different story, however, and slowly the federal vise tightened on the vital Mississippi. One improbable name, Ulysses S. Grant, stood out, and as defeat followed defeat in the East, Northerners still remembered his blunt demand for the "immediate and unconditional" surrender of Fort Donelson in 1862: "I propose to move immediately upon your works." Donelson surrendered. Finally in March 1864, Lincoln himself remembered, and Grant was given charge of all the Northern armies, Moving East to take personal command of the ill-starred Army...
...Soviet Union's 50th anniversary, he peevishly excluded Dubček from his official party. It was a major mistake. Left at home with all the dissidents, Dubček whipped them into a unified opposition. When Novotný returned home, they felt strong enough to demand his resignation...
Less than Absolute. The students en joyed a minor bit of triumph when the state-controlled daily Zycie Warszawy printed a list of demands drafted at a Warsaw protest rally. But it also printed a reply to each point, starting with the students' bedrock demand for the enforcement of constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. While allowing that some of the complaints might be justified, the paper warned that such freedoms "cannot be used against the character of our socialist sys tem." As for the students' protest against police brutality during the rioting, the paper came straight...
...Moscow recognize it as the force that corrals human energy and in genuity, transforming it into machines and factories, roads, rail lines, bridges, telegraph nets and power plants. Capital begets capital because it leads to production. That creates jobs and income, which in turn produce more capital and more demand for it. The Atlantic Council of the U.S.-a group of U.S. Government and business leaders-estimates that, in the ten-year span ending in 1976, North America and Western Europe will need $1 trillion to expand pro duction. They will also need the funds to open new and costly...
...consequences of the tight supply and growing demand for capital are postponed projects, frustrated entrepreneurs, and an inflation in the price of money. Interest rates have been rising fairly steadily since World War II, are now the highest since the 1920s. In Brazil, interest is typically calculated by the month, and rates run as much as 2½%½ monthly for prime borrowers, 5% for medium-sized companies, and 7% for consumers who make installment purchases. In large parts of Latin America, Asia and Africa, long-term capital is scarcely available at any price, and great chunks...