Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jarvis portrayed it, his goal was to relieve the government-inflicted sufferings of taxpayers. Said he: "We have seen the trauma of high taxes on older people. The deteriorating state of mind. The disease. The ulcers. When elderly people get those tax bills on their meager homes that demand another $1,500 a year, they get a cloud over their heads. Many of them give up the spirit and quietly die. One woman had a heart attack in front of me back in 1962 right in the assessor's office. That means something to me. Even the Russians...
Shaba's newly appointed military governor, Singa Boyenge Mosrmbry, tried to sound a positive note. "I am always an optimist," he said last week. "Next year the situation will be completely changed. The whites will be back by August or September." Perhaps so. But those who have remained are demanding a special payment of $1,000 a month in "danger money," the right to bear private arms, guarantees of evacuation "on demand" and, more significantly, a foreign military garrison. The expatriates have no confidence in the ability of the Zaïrian army to ward off another rebel attack...
...theme of Creve Coeur, finally, is valor. Toward the end of the play, Dorothea says, "We must pull ourselves together and go on, go on - that's all life seems to offer or demand." That has always been Tennessee Williams' credo, and he is scarcely likely to abandon...
...evidence of the breakin, to march into the Post's offices "in a position to intimidate everybody in command." Whether such a move would have stopped pursuit of the matter is doubtful, but Reston has a point about how a Deep Throat might be intimidated: "If the police can demand access to newspaper files, under court orders which the Government can easily demand, then anybody who differs with the Government will hesitate to tell the truth...
...demand for surrogates remained strong. Keane says he has received a thousand letters from couples seeking volunteer mothers, simply because there are so few white babies available for adoption. Says he: "There's a four-or five-year wait now, if a couple is lucky enough to get on a list at all." As a result, despite potential legal problems, some have already opted for surrogate mothers. Debbie and George, a couple who came to light after Keane's publicity, say they asked a good friend to bear George's child. Debbie herself impregnated the woman with...