Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dining hall workers, who make up approximately 15 per cent of Local 26, currently receive six dollars in pension receipts for every year of employment. The union will demand an increase of three dollars or more per year, Fred Walden, chief shop steward for Harvard Dining Halls, said yesterday...
...rise against the dollar. When Administration officials charge that West Germany's refusal to cooperate really amounts to an effort to have things both ways, they have a point. By refusing to pump up its economy, and choosing instead to keep its factories humming as a result of demand from the U.S., Bonn has copped a free ride out of the 1974-75 global recession, and avoided the inflationary risks inherent in stimulating West Germany's own domestic demand...
...value of the dollars in which OPEC's 13 members are paid for their petroleum. Saudi Arabia, OPEC's linchpin, is still opposed to a price boost, but whether it can prevail is becoming less certain. Iraq and Kuwait are among the leading OPEC members who demand a rise in prices and perhaps even an end to the dollar's role as the sole currency in which world oil prices are quoted...
...bill at the checkout counter. The rising costs of transportation and energy are another source of food inflation. Last year $16 billion was spent just to package food. It is not so much the cost of food itself that is driving prices up, but the consumers' apparently insatiable demand for convenience and variety-and the food companies' zeal to satisfy those appetites...
...known each other for eight years, and Shoemaker has watched her ride hunters and jumpers. "She's got a better seat than I do," he says admiringly. He also admits that "she's a lot prettier on a horse than I am." But not as much in demand at the tracks. The couple will forgo a honeymoon until the current racing season is over...