Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, the current inflation would not appear to be correctable by such a monetary device; it is not simply the result of excess buying power or too much income competing for too few goods. There are indications that prices are being pushed up in competitive markets not by excess demand, but rather by rising wages, profits and incomes in less competitive industrial and service sectors of the economy...
...Atwood." For almost half a century, the U.S. automobile was indeed a "gentleman's carriage," built for men and bought on the basis of its mechanical excellence, not its sculptured lines or pleasing colors. Today, the woman buys the car -and she wants something called "style," a demand that keeps Detroit's automakers peering far into the future. For a report on the little-known group of specialists who put the style in Detroit's new models, see BUSINESS, The Cellini of Chrome...
...high, fine gale that whistles about Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Adding to the airy velocity last week was the voice of Nebraska's Republican Congressman A. L. Miller, who called on Benson to resign from the Eisenhower Cabinet for the good of the Republican Party. The demand was not surprising, for Benson has nearly as many hostile Republican as Democratic critics...
...aftermath of dissension, there seemed little remaining hope that the Social Democrats could ever lure Italy's left-wing voters from the Communist-tainted banner of Pietro Nenni. As for unification, Nenni made clear he no longer considered the Social Democrats in any position to demand concessions from...
...repeated his demand for American recognition of Red China, and for more East-West negotiations...