Word: demands
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Increasing conversion of rental units to condominiums prompted the City Council to demand the regulations in early August...
...resource-production-cost aspect which is a part of any economic system, and is at the center of most socialist and less-developed economies. Advanced industrial societies seemed to have the production problems solved, and their business cycles appeared to originate mainly in fluctuations of private and public demands. The Keynesian analysis seemed appropriate since its focus was on the demand side...
...group most responsible for the spread of "new wave" in its most virulent form, that known as "punk rock." Listeners at Ramones concerts are regularly reported as having gone deaf. Their songs not only advocate "sniffing" glue, which causes brain damage and generally leads to addiction to heroin, but demand sedation, describe chainsaw massacres, and even outline the "blitzkrieg" technique of warfare popularized by the Nazis in World...
...Crimson did not say, as Brutus notes, that "the demand for an Afro Studies department came after the strike of '69." The sentence in the article reads that the department was "created in the aftermath of the Harvard strike of 1969." The article notes that the Rosovsky committee had been working on developing Afro-American Studies considerably before the strike. The department itself was voted in after the strike in April...
...Crimson inaccurately reports that the demand for an Afro Studies department came after the strike of '69. It became a strike demand because Rosovsky changed the report of his committee from recommending a department to recommending an interdisciplinary combined concentration without informing the students who worked on the committee writing the original version of the report. There was considerable pressure for a department leading up to that demand for some time. The challenge of an uncombined department is to present the perspective of two-thirds of the world's population, a perspective which other departments at Harvard have shown...