Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free campaigning privileges on the government-owned BBC radio and TV only to parties putting up at least 50 candidates; and there are only 36 Welsh seats in the House of Commons to contest. Hammering away at England's "colonialist" attempts at "cultural genocide" for Wales, the nationalists demand recognition of the Cymric language in the schools, faster industrialization in Wales to compensate hardscrabble valley settlements for closed-down mines, and commonwealth status...
Though these measures may help some-what, there is no final solution to the problem, Elder continued. We can only wait and hope that the supply of teachers will eventually catch up with the demand as the sharp rise in the birth rate levels out, he added...
...less room than most for maneuver. As its new budget shows (see below), Britain is more prosperous than at any other time since World War II. Never have more people owned their own homes; there are waiting lists for cars, tailors cannot get enough cutters to meet the tremendous demand for new suits, bookings for expensive continental holidays are the highest ever. Only in the past four years have the British enjoyed the kind of widely distributed prosperity that the U.S. has enjoyed for 15, and after ration-book austerity, the heady delights of TV sets, washers and new cars...
Lhasa was appalled. It was unthinkable that a message should go directly to the Dalai Lama instead of being reverently submitted through his Cabinet. It was even worse to demand that the Living Buddha attend a meeting alone without his ceremonial train of senior abbots and court officials. On hearing the news, the Dalai Lama's mother burst into tears. Thousands of weeping women surged around the Indian consulate general and begged the consul to accompany them while they handed a protest petition to the Red Chinese. The monks of the city's three great lamaseries prepared...
...McDonald last week went a letter from twelve big steel companies asking for a one-year extension from this June 30 of the present wage agreement, without any increase in benefits. Although the recovery is making "moderate progress," said the letter, there is a disturbing "bulge of synthetic demand" created by fear of a steel strike, and it could lead to "decline and dislocation" later. To keep the economy on a steady course, said the steel companies, "We believe it would be wholesome if a settlement could be reached...