Word: demands
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...community was small and closely knit. Education in general had not become the major industry it is today. Immediately after World War II high school and college enrollments began to increase rapidly. At first returning soldiers swelled the number of students; later an expanding population fueled the growth in demand for education. General Education was in part intended to help absorb the new influx of students coming from a more varied educational background. But the same developments that persuaded the Faculty to create General Education also helped produce the specialization that is now destroying...
Corporate executives' projections for continued economic growth and expected increases in hiring by the federal government are contributing to a growing national demand for business school graduates...
Last month more than 5000 farmers from 41 states descended on Washington, D.C., to publicize their plight and to demand higher government-supported food prices. That demonstration, and the general farm strike that accompanied it, were not unprecedented, but they were unusual. They were organized by the American Agricultural Movement--a rather unorganized group itself. It does not have officers, dues or members...
...shocking it is that we tend to ignore the rights of teachers and overemphasize the rights of students! Will union contracts begin to demand combat...
...result, the antiques market is at present enjoying an unprecedented boom. The demand for a piece of the past was such that the auction houses hammered down one record after another in 1977: rare books ($360,000 for John James Audubon's Birds of America), Sèvres porcelain ($102,600 for Marie Antoinette's delicately painted milk pail), American furniture ($135,000 for a Boston-made mahogany bombé chest, circa 1780), even tin toys ($3,105 for a Mickey Mouse organ grinder...