Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Global Package Deal. It was that mood which linked Dienbienphu with the political battlefields of Europe. Soviet Russia has been hinting at the price that it and Red China might demand for an end to the Indo-Chinese fighting. Items: I) Western recognition of Red China's "legitimate place," 2) an end to the cold-war limitations on East-West trade, and 3) by implication if not outright demand, a refusal by France to go ahead with...
During her 15-year-long parliamentary career, peppery Laborite Edith Summer-skill, doughty feminist and onetime Minister of National Insurance, has outraged many a British male by views that ranged from ringing denunciations of bacon & eggs for breakfast to a demand for a law requiring all men to tell their wives how much money they earn. Four years ago, when every British man worthy of his gender stood breathlessly awaiting the first round of a long-heralded bout of fisticuffs between two gentlemen named Lee Savold and Bruce Woodcock, Dr. Edith threw a haymaker at the manly...
...half of Pakistan. Mohammed Ali, a shrewd politician, had taken to East Pakistan's hustings in person to avert a rout, but not in time. This week he met Suhrawardy to lay the groundwork for settling East Pakistan's legitimate grievances. The alternative: a mounting East Pakistan demand for provincial autonomy on domestic issues, which would divide the nation in politics as it is now divided by geography...
...consumers, through an increased exemption plan like the one the House rejected, is far more effective medicine for this kind of ailment. Raising exemptions above the present $600 would increase general buying power. And as consumption grows, business can be expected to extend its capacity to meet increased demand. Benefits to the great mass of the public, in the ability to buy more and better things, are direct and immediate...
Since the Japanese, unlike U.S. listeners, demand that soap operas eventually be brought to a conclusion, Kikuta's present problem is how to wind up his show when it goes off the air next month. Forbidden by his employers, the Japan Broadcasting Corp., to reveal or even speculate on events to come, Kikuta will only say, "I should like to see a sad-happy ending." Radio listeners are predicting that 1) Haruki and Machiko will marry and she will then die in childbirth, or 2) Haruki and Machiko will both climb Mount Fuji and make a double suicide dive...