Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian "smiles'" approach, while useful on the world scene, tends to create a demand for freedom both at home and in the satellites, and the Communist Party cannot keep appeasing the demand without jeopardizing its rule. Furthermore, the Soviet policy of economic aid to non-Communist nations has not led swiftly to the political conquests the Kremlin seeks (it is noteworthy that Nasser returned to Egypt full of Russian propaganda backing but saying nothing about getting any rubles). It has also become clear that Russia cannot whistle up a summit conference on its terms alone...
...meet "the increasing demand for a better knowledge of the Middle East," the University will this summer offer intensive training in the modern languages of the area and additional courses on the peoples and their government...
...industry's troubles, Carson added, come more from declining demand than from imports. "If all imports were stopped tomorrow, I do not see how that action would increase consumer demand. In a few years, we will be able to use every barrel of oil that we can produce, and probably every barrel we can import...
While Detroit is hard put to sell the 1958 cars, the simple, stately autos from another era are moving fast. Last week the Stutzes, Simplexes and Duesenbergs of yesteryear commanded a hotter demand and a higher price than any time since they went out of production. In the nation's major trading post for antique (prior to the mid-1920s) and classic (usually prior to 1942) cars, the automobile pages of the Sunday New York Times, a 1920 seven-passenger Fierce-Arrow was advertised for $2,500 v. $7,250 when new. Many oldsters were worth more than ever...
...purpose repeated decreases in prices -never an increase.'' Lilly's average profit, said Beesley, was only 6¼? per dose, against which the company took the gamble of producing vaccine without assurance of a market. Currently, Lilly has an inventory of 24,043,000 doses. Since demand has fallen way off, Lilly may have to destroy the vaccine, because it loses potency after a certain time. Said Beesly: "It is incredible that, as a postscript to one of our greatest achievements, we should be confronted with these unfounded charges...