Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conant had written about these schools in such books as "Education and Liberty--the Role of the Schools in a Modern Society." He feels that this new study will allow him to learn about the schools' more recent problems brought about by the rising birth rate and the increased demand for engineers...
...demand for specialists will increase still further," he continued. "But unless they have a broad and liberal education, they will not be able to make decisions in the right...
...redemption, nothing beautiful or significant in this view of life. Evil is inevitable, flowing from circumstance and irresistable human weakness, and thus it means nothing. A homily of continued and undeserved misfortune seems morally and aesthetically unsatisfying. Instead of being tragic, it is merely "too bad." One does demand from any work of art that it have moral signifigance, that hope has not died with the demise of God in Western culture. The attitudes of despair and amorality reflected here are understandable values that Europe experienced after...
There was only one characteristically French way to stave off such a humiliating anticlimax: the Premier called in the leaders of the dairy bloc and promised an eventual rise in milk prices, if they would not demand one now. Mollet had special reason to worry about milk; it is one of the 213 items on France's official cost-of-living index. For weeks the index has hovered around 149. The day it hits 149.1, legal minimum wages all over France will jump 5%, triggering eventual pay increases for about twelve million French workers...
...Much in Demand. Recently Roberta has been arranging her tours so that she is never away from home more than six weeks at a time-her husband Don, now a semi-invalid, looks out for the boys and answers all of Roberta's correspondence from their Florida home. She is working hard because, she says, "I'd like to pay off the debts and get something put aside." Roberta proved such a hit with women viewers when she appeared recently on Ed Murrow's Person to Person that there is talk of signing her for a daily...