Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sciences and Mathematics programs have also undergone revisions, with a particularly strong emphasis on biology and natural history courses and a new advanced math courses giving a solid introduction to calculus. There has been a particularly large demand recently for the Physics and Chemistry courses which are electives in the upper two classes, and the teaching of these subjects is now being brought up to date with the assistance of an M.I.T. science teaching program. But this does not mean that the school feels an increased need to push all students ahead in the sciences. One math teacher observes that...
...this duty the means must be available. If you are willing to invest it, the government . . . will demand from you full powers to act with effectiveness and speed. It will ask them from you for a period of six months, hoping that by the end of that term order will have been restored in the state, hope rediscovered in Algeria and union remade in the nation...
...nation could then be called to pronounce freely and in sovereign fashion on the constitutional reform that the higher interests of democracy demand...
...Yugoslav government denounced the Russian action as an "entirely unilateral cancellation of valid economic agreements, in glaring contradiction with established standards of international relations," and hinted that it might be "compelled" to demand damages for breach of contract. But its only real recourse was to let the world see what a "selfless sharing" benefactor Moscow...
...William Street Fund, Inc.-the largest initial financing ever made by an investment company. Then Lehman Senior Partner Robert Lehman turned a check for the total amount over to the Fund president, Dorsey Richardson. Lehman originally planned to sell only 3,000,000 shares. But demand proved so great that Lehman increased the offering to 16 million. The response amazed all Wall Street, which had no idea there was so much money available from small investors, particularly during a recession. Sparked by Lehman's success, Lazard Freres & Co. announced that it will start a mutual fund, the fifth...