Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union spokesman said he believes the terms of the contract will inspire other Harvard union workers to demand better terms in their contract negotiations...
Christine B. Sullivan, the Mass. Secretary of Consumer Affairs, and representatives from different public interest groups claimed the Pilgrim facility need not be build now, if at all, because future demand for electricity will increase at only about half of the 4.99 per cent rate the utility predicted when it first planned the plant...
About 500 people demonstrated in Boston Saturday to demand that the Supreme Court rule against Allan Bakke, and to protest the role the Bakke case has played in recent racial violence in Boston...
Both luck and stubbornness had a part in Empain's release. Alarmed by the epidemic of kidnapings in Western Europe, the French government had established a firm policy of refusing to lay low during negotiations with kidnapers. Once it became apparent-from the sole ransom demand of $8.6 million-that they were dealing with professional criminals rather than political radicals, police grew bolder than ever. Though the Empain family was willing to pay off, police set up a phony ransom drop on a highway near Paris and ambushed a team of kidnapers who tried to retrieve the funds. Three...
...inventories of more than 2 million tons are now overhanging the market, forcing the U.S. spot price down to about 620 per lb., below Kennecott's average cost. Some analysts, however, believe that copper might go as high as $1 per lb. by the end of 1979, as demand catches up with supply. But, if the stock market is any indicator, the prospects for Kennecott, as with most "smokestack" companies, are dim. Its stock sold for about $25 a share last week, far below the book value...