Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress gets to work. Facing the men of Capitol Hill are three conflicting impulses: the desire for pork-barrel spending in an election year, the desire to economize, the desire to keep up with Russia without going into debt or raising taxes. Already Americans for Democratic Action demand a $78 billion to $80 billion budget; contrariwise, penny-saving House Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon has harrumphed that "a great many people are going to use national defense as a reason to bolster their requests for bigger appropriations." What will finally come out will be clear only when the countdown ends...
What I am proposing is a charge that would make it possible to attract able young men into the teaching profession. With the faculty experiencing a deterioration of economic status of 50 per cent vis-a-vis the rest of the population in 25 years and with demand for faculty rising four times as fast as for the whole working population in the next 15 years, an improved economic position of faculty is indispensable to maintain the high quality of a college education and in particular of a Harvard education... Seymour E. Harris, Professor of Economics
...power, is still best described as chairman of the gang. And to control such a gang, as Nikita well knows, takes far more political skill than Stalin ever required. Khrushchev's Russia needs its thinking men?its scientists and its technicians?and Khrushchev must allow them to think. They demand respect. They can do without Khrushchev, but Khrushchev cannot do without them. Within the party there may be younger men who will overtake him when he slows or stumbles. But in 1957, Nikita Khrushchev outran, outfoxed, outbragged, outworked and out-drank them...
...Public apathy is forcing manufacturers of Salk polio vaccine to destroy hundreds of thousands of doses. About 25 million shots are stockpiled, with little demand during the season of low incidence when the public tends to forget polio. And unused vaccine must be destroyed after six months. Doctors' reminder: anyone beginning a three-shot vaccination series now can finish it before the polio season's summer peak in most...
...present recession is largely the result of overdoing credit restraint, and is causing us to consume valuable inventories of goods and to reduce the rate at which we construct much-needed plant and equipment. In other words, the recession is making it easier in the long run for demand to outrun the supply of goods. Hence, the present recession tends to increase the likelihood of a rise in the price level...