Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion), and 2) the 1957 recession will almost certainly shrink the Government's predicted tax returns, will also probably warm up tax-cut sentiments. To arrive at a balanced budget for fiscal 1959, the Administration will somehow have to chop nondefense spending in the face of undiminished public demand for federal services and subsidies; to meet the demand for services as well as the need for defense spending, it may well have to go to an unbalanced budget...
...these apartments can only accommodate one-seventh of the demand. The remainder of the married graduate students is forced to devise expedients. Everybody finds something. Some live in trailers; others take big apartments and rent rooms. Often, two couples share a small apartment while they wait for an opening at the Housing Trust. The length of time on the waiting list is largely a matter of luck. For some, it is a matter of two or three weeks; others wait months in cramped quarters. Mrs. F. K. Patterson, assistant director of the Harvard Wives, says that married students are generally...
...year beginning in September. The student must therefore pay for his apartment even if he does not use it in the summer; this constitutes a serious drain on his resources. Summer sublets almost always entail a loss, since the supply in a college community far exceeds the off-season demand. This enhances the attractiveness of such a location as Revere--a resort area--where a profitable sublease is relatively easy to acquire...
...some reflection will show that this is not the case. Even Mohammed V, who ordered the disbanding of the Popular Movement branch of the Istiqual, that is the pro-F.L.N. Moroccan party, even Bourguiba, who expressed much annoyance at the F.L.N.'s disavowal of Yazid, and its constant demand for total independence before negotiation, during his talk with the F.L.N. in Tunis last month, feels that the idea of a totally autonomous Algeria is impracticable...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Biographer Margaret Coit (John C. Calhoun) has entered the supply-and-demand cycle of Baruch books at the critical phase where supply becomes glut. The truth is that the wily old (87) speculator has cornered the market with Baruch: My Own Story (TIME, Aug. ig), which has a grip on the No. 1 nonfiction spot of national bestseller lists. The first half of Mr. Baruch (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for December) is a blurred carbon copy of Baruch's own book, concerned mainly with his South Carolina boyhood and his stock market coups. Biographer Coit...