Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union will demand a cost-of-living increase of more than 8 per cent, John A. Polimeno, secretary-treasurer of the union, said yesterday...
Work study jobs at libraries have increased more than 20 per cent over last year, Hazel Stamps, a Widener staff member, said Wednesday, adding that she expects more jobs to be offered as the demand rises...
Everywhere else in his stories, Voinovich judiciously stirs a bit of pathos in with the farce. "What I Might Have Been" is both the earliest and the best in this collection. A construction foreman tells why he resisted his superiors' demand that he declare a block of apartments finished before it's ready. The narrator is no warrior of dissent; his only reason for stepping out of line is that he "doesn't like sloppy work." Voinovich characterizes his hero and the people around him with spare strokes of wry description and an occasional slip of the knife...
...fence with bolt snippers. The police don't like the scattered skirmishes--they are caged, turning around to make sure no one is doing anything on the other side, turning their night sticks and batons over and over in their hands. It doesn't calm them down when you demand to know about their potentially mutant grandchildren and tell them, "We're doing this for you." Construction workers jeer--one hurls bricks, another pokes through the fence with a sharpened stick...
...want to encourage Harvard students and administrators to write letters to the mayor's office and community leaders and demand that they work upon racial relations in Boston," Green said...