Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Printing Developments, Inc. to handle the distribution of products developed by our Springdale Laboratories, notably two new types of lithographic plates and the Electronic Scanner. Last month P.D.I. completed negotiations for building a new electroplating plant at Racine, Wis., to meet the demand from U.S. and Canadian lithographers for these hard-metal, offset plates, the "Lithure" and the "Lithengrave...
Last March, negotiations broke down on Makarios' insistence that he should hand-pick the Greek majority in the Provisional Assembly, and on his demand for an amnesty for all Cypriot terrorists. The real issue was control of the island's security. The British feared that a hostile government in command of the island's police and defense services might act to weaken, even make untenable, their huge military base, intended for the protection of British oil interests in the Middle East...
...momentous question: should an a or an an precede hotel? In favor of an was Lord Faringdon, who begged "your Lordships to join me in making a demonstration in favor of elegance. Lord Conesford agreed, pointed out that h words that are not accented on the first syllable demand an. "I believe," said he, "that every one of your Lordships would say 'a Harrow boy,' but would also speak of 'an Harrovian.' " But what, asked Lord Rea, would Lord Conesford do with one-syllable words? "In the case of an inn sign of a public house...
...famed Pasteur Institute of Paris put on sale 6,000 series (three shots each) of a modified Salk anti-polio vaccine, found the situation in France diametrically opposite to that in the U.S.: supply far exceeds demand. One reason is that polio is much less common in France; so is the wherewithal to buy the vaccine, which costs $7.15 for the three shots...
...made an "about-face" on 20 years of collective bargaining, and given his union an "ultimatum" to accept a "substandard contract." After four weeks of negotiating between McDonald and U.S. Steel's John Stephens, the industry's chief spokesman, the differences boiled down to i) a union demand for a 28.3? an hour "package" deal v. a management offer of 14-15?, 2) management's demand for a five-year contract instead of the usual two-year pact...