Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, railroads have increased shipments of poisonous, explosive and asphyxiating chemicals, to 80 million tons in 1976. They also routinely transport nuclear materials, so far without serious accident. To keep up with the demand, shippers have doubled the capacity of the average tank car, to 100 tons. Federal safety standards that took effect last September require new tankers to be equipped with crash shields to prevent punctures and thermal liners to reduce the chance of explosions. But shippers have until 1981 to remodel the 23,000 tank cars that are used to ship dangerous substances. Only about...
Boynton is also concerned about the financial situation of the Div School. "Our financial resources seem to be suffering at the very moment when we see a demand for the programs that we make available," Boynton says, adding that because the school is so heavily dependent on endowment income, it has less flexibility than its sister schools...
...muscular onetime deliveryman practically became lord of the manor. He directed workmen around the estate and took care of business for "the missus." He knew every detail of her life, even that she stored a lock of her hair in an ivory box in her bedroom. Says John Demand, a former detective who participated in the investigation: "I had the strange feeling that Matlick had taken over her entire personality." He even used her glasses to read...
...herself. Behind her openness there is a great reserve. And behind this reserve there is a private area that almost no one has been allowed to see. It is easy to speculate that it might involve some variety of reckless, wild release, simply because so much control seems to demand some kind of balancing. But the odds are that behind the control there is more control. Her husband, a tall, slim fellow who puts a lot of emotion into his conversation and his gestures and who is forever touching Cheryl on the arm or smooching her behind the ear, says...
There are more than 300 such firms with subsidiaries in South Africa that annually do a total of $1.7 billion worth of business. Students charge that universities, by owning stock in these corporations, are indirectly supporting a racist government; they demand that the stock be sold. Proclaims one Berkeley activist: "We're calling for complete divestiture and nothing short...