Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey conducted for the University last year by the Parking Development Company of Boston indicated that the University had facilities to satisfy only 54 per cent of the present demand for parking. This meant that the only alternative for the other student car owners was to park on the city streets, generally illegally...
With regard to Area A, the survey discovered that the parking capacity at the time was only equal to 53 per cent of the parking demand--1031 car spaces being available as compared with a demand for 2074. (The demand figures were not a simple count of the number of cars which park in the area, but represented the number of spaces which would be required on the average day so that cars would not have to park on public streets.) The problem in this area was almost exclusively one of faculty and student commuters and employees, rather than...
...Area B, the capacity was less than 12 per cent of the demand. Although the problem was numerically the smallest in this area, there was little chance for any increase in capacity...
...many practitioners of the "soul racket." But the East End is still overwhelmingly unchurched. To Father Oswald the plays' purpose is the same one that sent 15th century Christians into England's streets to perform the classic morality play Everyman (in which God dispatches Death to demand an immediate "rekenynge" from the happy-go-luckless hero): to reach those who will not come to church and present Christianity to them in simple, vivid terms. Says Father Oswald: "You see, the spoken word is not good enough nowadays. There is no good giving them beautiful words and lovely thoughts...
Though no final decision has been reached, Justice's lawyers will probably demand that Du Pont sell its stock on the open market. But they are not likely to ask Du Pont to dump the entire 64 million shares all at once-something that would not only disrupt the market but also cost Du Pont a $600 million to $700 million capital-gains tax (25%) in one lump. To ease the pinch, the Justice Department favors a more moderate plan, under which Du Pont's stock in G.M. would go into a temporary, nonvoting trust, which in turn...