Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China, busily courting Britain, last week sought in small ways to show what a fine companion she would make. But she also showed plainly, in rationing out her favors, that she was in full control of her emotions. In three moves, Peking: <| Agreed without haggling to Britain's demand for ?367,000 ($1,027,600) compensation for shooting down a Cathay Pacific Skymaster off Hainan Island last July 23, in which ten passengers (three of them American) lost their lives. Peking has rejected three U.S. protests, but took the British protest in good grace and even promised that "measures...
...Luminous Sacred Hearts that glow in the dark. "So comforting for the sick." says the manufacturer's circular. "Hot traffic builder-always in demand...
...there was laughter and low moaning and exclamations of surprise and delight." As it turned out. the trader was simply charging admission for a look at U.S. magazines. The Atlantic Monthly "is not worth even one peanut with a worm inside." The New Yorker and Esquire were in some demand. "Sometimes a copy of TIME was acceptable and sometimes it was not. The one sure way to open the cornucopia of the back room was to produce an issue of LIFE.'' Explained the trader: "It costs one copper for anyone to stand there while the sand runs through...
Yale, which is still processing its seats, has reported much less demand among its undergraduates and alumni for tickets than Harvard. But the Yale ticket office has said it is "very doubtful" about returning any of its allotment...
...other hand, is concerned with developing scholars. It aims at training professional historians, whether they will also be teachers, researchers, or even lawyers or businessmen. Indeed, nearly all the graduate students in History want to teach. But History, like other major fields, is overcrowded. There simply is not enough demand for teachers, and as a result, about a third of all Ph.D.'s in History enter careers as archivists, government workers, or sometimes, as businessmen...