Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the old pros they were, both men opened aggressively. Beam demanded an immediate cease-fire in the Quemoy area and renunciation by Peking of the use of force in the Formosa Strait. Wang countered with a demand for immediate withdrawal of Chinese Nationalist troops garrisoning the Quemoy and Matsu Islands and an end to U.S. military support of Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
Division of Power. The original Metro charter converted Dade County's governmental machinery into a major municipal authority. It aimed at developing such city-type services as water supply, sewage disposal, zoning, housing codes, traffic planning-which demand area-wide coordination. It left to each of the 26 municipalities such functions as beat-walking police and garbage collection. Experience alone would show how some jobs, such as police detection work, could be best divided...
...damage. They stole some 340 buses, left more than 200 in need of major repairs. There were 65 buses with carburetors missing, 50 with batteries gone, 40 with missing seats, 112 with the upholstery ripped to shreds. If the government, which is now arbitrating a bus drivers' demand for a wage increase, grants the hike without also boosting fares, the owners say that they will pull all buses out of service...
...that Reuther would give in came when Ford proposed a three-year agreement. Reuther raised no real objection, even though this key Ford demand had been flatly turned down for months. From then on, differences were quickly settled. The problem was to find enough high-sounding but low-cost fringe benefits so that Reuther, who had long ago scrapped his grandiloquent profit-sharing schemes, could save face. Fordman Bugas hurried to a special evening meeting of Ford's board in Dearborn. He returned with a few penny-ante sweeteners. Reuther stepped back into the conference room, as union stewards...
...into new towns or new industries to find jobs. Historically, sharp increases in productivity have always created tough periods of adjustment. Yet more production for the same amount of effort has also always led to stable or lower prices and better products, which in turn have increased demand and eventually spurred both production and employment...