Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mystical poetry-far from that. Zionism has been a diagnosis, a prescription and a therapy. It is a slow and painful process, nevertheless enchanted, precisely because of the tensions, the ambivalence of the Israeli condition, the variety of visions and the pain of realities. The Israelis' demand is absolute: either they have the best country in the world, the purest, the fulfillment of the highest moral standards, or else there is a total disillusionment...
...poorly delivered lectures or have tried to learn from nervous and unprepared section leaders. Some of the teachers who consented to be taped for an evaluation of their teaching ability are so bad they are almost humorous. An economics section leader tangles himself up hopelessly in supply-and-demand curves, stares pitifully at the blackboard and stumbles on through a now useless explanation. A French section leader twirls her hair anxiously, prods a student for an answer and then says disgustedly, "We're just going to skip you." An Expository Writing teacher tries to carry on a class discussion while...
Carter further insisted that a tax cut of $25 billion, effective Oct. 1, is needed to create jobs, and that it "would not be inflationary." Since only 82% of the nation's production capacity is being used, he asserted, inflation is not being caused by the excess demand that would be aggravated by big budget deficits, but rather by "a cycle of wage increases, price increases that kind of grow on one another." Within hours, he had a congressional answer of sorts: in a preliminary vote on the budget for fiscal 1979, the Senate decided...
...property annually instead of every four years. Homeowner fury has forced the De Kalb assessors to unplug the infernal machine. In Chicago's Cook County, property taxes for many homeowners jumped anywhere from 20% to 100% last year. Some of the most extreme increases are in California, where demand and speculation have inflated real estate prices, and state spending under Governors Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown has increased an average 12% a year. Says Andrew Smith, 68, whose taxes on his West Los Angeles house have jumped in five years from $650 to $2,780: "Half of the income...
...chuckling): I demand you: When, dear Amy (cher ami), do gentleman trains go toward Lady Nice...