Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more liberal than Mills seek to produce their own alternatives. So far, the Democrats have unveiled no grand schemes for the 91st Congress. Their main effort may well be to preserve and finance Great Society programs. Nixon is now in the process of determining how much he can safely demand-and how he can get the opposition to meet him halfway...
...whole operation is the tax-free bond. Since holders of bonds issued by such local and state authorities do not have to pay federal income tax on the proceeds of the bonds, they are willing to accept a lower interest rate than they otherwise would demand. Currently, the interest rate on the tax-exempt bonds is slightly more than four per cent. Borrowing at a bank can cost about seven per cent. Harvard gets an annual return of about 5.8 per cent on its general investment funds...
...group, which calls itself the Student Initiative Coalition, supports the Afro-American Association of Students' demand for a Department of Afro-American Studies and an increase in the number of black professors. The coalition also calls for "immediate reform or abolition" of the present grading system...
...letter also states that the students "demand a definitive vote on the Faculty stand by the end of the Dec. 12 meeting...
...Brown Daily Herald editor said last night that the blacks have not made clear whether the 11 per cent demand applied to Brown in addition to Pembroke, or whether a delay in its implementation would be acceptable...