Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music was fatally stigmatized as "serial" by its won early champions, and the public image of cloistered men disgorging an endless series of mechanical monsters has yet to fade. People will always demand the ambrosia of the past, and contemporary composers refuse to serve it, a decision approaching martyrdom...
...chemical companies generally did well on the strength of greater demand and firmer prices. Standard Oil of New Jersey, the oil-industry leader, earned an alltime high of $1.275 billion, up 10% from the year before, on sales of $16 billion. Texaco also set a record with earnings of $835.5 million, while Atlantic Richfield gained 14.5% over 1967, Mobil 11% and Gulf, California Standard and U.S. Shell each about 10%. The chemical industry was cheered by the end of a slump in sales of synthetic textiles. Du Pont, which derives one-third of its business from nylon and other synthetics...
...there really is no reason for it. Oh, as long as the rules demand a "good excuse" for being absent from an exam, the Ad Board must enforce them. But that particular set of rules is of dubious value...
Parallel efforts made by the various faculties to attract black faculty members to their ranks met with less success, for the supply of qualified black academics is far below the current demand. It appears increasingly probable, therefore, that we shall make our most significant contribution in this area in the years immediately ahead by concentrating on attracting on attracting promising students particularly at the graduate level. If we succeed well here we shall, of course, ultimately increase the supply of black teachers available for both graduate and graduate professional study...
...mind. Toughness, by definition, is like leather-durable, flexible, dynamic, and should in no sense be equated with hardness-inflexible, brittle and weak. Our new President will need-and possesses-firmness, judgment, commitment, compassion and dedication. History, of course, will make the ultimate judgment. I believe that the times demand these qualities and that President Nixon will demonstrate them...