Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the delegates were not by any means certain to stand solidly behind the 16 nations' position; many were still wavery on the question of opening the Korean conference table to neutralist-minded countries like India. This week Vishinsky capitalized on the uncertainty with a fresh demand to reopen the whole question. Communist demands for a full-blown "roundtable" peace conference "must be met," he declared. It sounded very much like a threat to torpedo the peace talks unless the Reds get their...
...century and a half the meter, defined as the average distance between microscopic lines on a master meter bar, was good enough. Then science began to demand more exact measurements. Last week a ten-nation advisory committee meeting at Sèvres recommended that the hallowed meter bars be abandoned in favor of wave lengths of light. Next year a full-dress international conference will make the final decision. It will probably doom the meter bars...
Corporations and local governments are in the midst of the biggest bond-selling campaign in U.S. history. Some financial men had worried that the unprecedented non-Government demand for long-term money, added to the Treasury's huge needs, might soon outrun the supply. But by all signs last week, there was no cause to worry. Investors bought more than $400 million worth of private and local debt issues, one of the largest single week's totals on record...
...aftermath of General Motors' $70 million Livonia fire (TIME, Aug. 24), insurance companies are rewriting their recommendations for industrial plants. They will demand greater use of sprinklers, curtain boards and other fire-retarding devices...
...without some kind of health and hospitalization insurance today. There is only one low family rate regardless of the size of the family. Even the employees of Harvard, among them a crowd of teaching Fellows, are offered Blue Shield and Blue Cross group rates. For the University to demand that these graduate students be doubly protected and twice taxed cannot be justified n terms of the students' own interests; they still have to keep their wives and children covered by family health insurance, and the Hygiene Department, understandably, makes no provision for their dependents...