Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Argentina, determined to broaden its economic base and achieve self-sufficiency, built factories by decree, not in answer to economic demand. In eight years Dictator Juan Peron transformed Argentina's economy from predominantly agricultural to predominantly industrial, but left it saddled with inefficient plants making products that are priced out of the market...
...broken bones and painful cuts administered by three well trained athletes cry out much more effectively than we could ever hope to do. We can only demand swift and severe punitive action. We can only ask why these men did what they...
...Harvard for a Harvard professorship. Such a man will certainly know what the faculty, department, and students expect of him. This system will perpetuate the department's high standards, but it will also perpetuate some undesirable ones. To avoid a closed room type of intellectual atmosphere, a department could demand that its members spend at least a year teaching at other universities. At present, when a junior faculty members accepts an appointment at another university, he is rarely considered a few years later for a professorship--even if his record at Harvard was outstanding...
Neither Tangeman nor Boulukos is majoring in science, but both were certain that they could record and send valuable scientific data earthward. Tangeman pointed out that a human being could certainly be of more help than a dog. "I demand man in place of animal," he said in the telegram...
...region (TIME, Sept. 30), set a course that probably will be followed by other industry leaders. Said President Clyde Weed: "We will keep on exploring, but at a slower rate. We will spend less money on development. If we find good deposits, we will sit on them until the demand picks...