Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of the American tradition, although the influence of the lobbying rests on professional claims to special knowledge about health problems. It is precisely this familiarity with needless suffering and illness that should make the members of the AMA try to keep America's health service ahead of public demand rather than behind it. The American Medical Association should indeed criticize the Eisenhower health proposals--not because they re the "entering wedge of socialized medicine" (as the AMA called them last year) but because they are inadequate even as an initial attempt to mobilize the country's medical resources...
Chou's belligerent refusal of the U.N. invitation last week was coupled with the demand that he be seated in the U.N. to discuss a Russian resolution charging the U.S. with aggression in the Far East. But the U.S. was in a good position to counter this proposal. Having placed itself on the side of peace, the U.S. could from now on make its power felt in the Pacific...
...order also provides certain safeguards against injustice to the employees, who can demand hearings before a Civil Service Commission board, have the right to counsel, can present witnesses in their own behalf and (in most cases) cross-examine adverse witnesses. But the system does not-and cannot-adhere strictly to judicial principles, with the "defendant" presumed innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. For guilt in the legal sense is not involved. The idea is not to wait until the drunken employee gives away an important secret; it is to get rid of him beforehand...
...island outpost, the Red Chinese had, in a sense, persuaded the Western powers to sue for truce. Peking, without being asked to justify its behavior in any way, was being given the opportunity to use the U.N. as a forum to push its claim to Formosa and its demand for U.N. membership...
...construction contracts in 37 states for the first three weeks of January, reported the F. W. Dodge Corp., hit $1 billion, up 32% from the same 1954 period. Largely because of the boom in autos and construction, steel output was scheduled at 85.4% of capacity, best since 1953, and demand was so great that a mild grey market developed for some steel products. In the lead and zinc markets, buying was heavy as manufacturers hedged against price rises that might follow the recent boost in copper...