Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kissinger, who claims to be "a secret swinger," lavishes his attentions on plenty of other Washington ladies. By making a pact with White House Social Secretary Lucy Winchester, he has contrived to be seated next to the most beautiful women at presidential dinners, even though protocol would normally demand that he sit with the visiting dignitaries. At the state dinner for South Korea's President Chung Hee Park in San Francisco, Kissinger wound up beside Zsa Zsa Gabor. Occasionally, he turns up with Gloria Steinem, the smashing-looking Gucci liberal who writes for New York Magazine...
Kuznetsov's detractors, enjoying the safety of New York and London, are scarcely in a position to demand that a Soviet writer risk his liberty, and perhaps his life, by making open protests on Soviet soil...
...Solzhenitsyn, last week gathered momentum. A month ago, Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Russian Writers Union on the charge that his novels, notably The First Circle and Cancer Ward, "threw mud on the motherland." Nine writers are reported to have called personally on the union's secretary to demand reconsideration of the expulsion. Seventy other writers are said to have sent letters or telegrams to the union call ing for a special rehearing of the case, and 300 others have reportedly written letters of protest...
...years that investors often must wait for full repayment of principal, investors eventually would get back dollars worth much less than those they originally lent. Meanwhile, interest rates would keep on climbing-to levels that might make even today's yields look piddling because lenders would demand even higher returns to keep ahead of prices. (Some mortgage lenders now grumble that they are "stuck" with loans made years ago at interest that seemed high then but is low now.) The end result of this process would be that investors would refuse to supply as much long-term credit...
...increase from $1.03 per Ib. to $1.28 was the largest in this century. Inco rested its case for the steep rise as much on its plan to spend $600 million for expansion by 1973 as it did on the wage increases. Even without the strike-induced shortage, the world demand for nickel has been outpacing supply, and the imbalance could continue for several years...