Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louis sports and convention arena, also on the river bank, is near completion. Luxury apartments are scheduled to be built on an adjacent 35-acre plot, and some 70 large construction projects are being developed for the rest of the downtown area. Indeed, downtown apartments are in such demand that they have become scarce and rents are rising...
...Four Modernizations [program] was put forward by Chair man Mao and then was made pub lic through Premier Chou in his speech at the Fourth National People's Congress in 1974. At the same time, we have always considered that Chairman Mao was not beyond fault. We cannot demand of any great personage that he be faultless. To demand that is not in keeping with the thoughts of Marx or of Mao Tse-tung himself. Then there are many things that Chairman Mao could not foresee during his lifetime because of the limitations of the condi tions then existing...
...short run, low productivity can create jobs as more workers are needed to supply rising demand. That happened in early 1978, when joblessness dropped much faster than production rose. But in the long run, low productivity hurts employment too. In the 1960s, it was thought that the economy could grow 4% each year without setting off a burst of demand-pull inflation. Mostly because of the collapse in productivity, the Administration now reckons the safe-growth ceiling to be 3%. An economy growing that slowly cannot create enough jobs for all the people who are looking for work...
...because black South African leaders have asked corporations to withdraw. The University points to the silence of a few black leaders on this issue as evidence of support for corporate presence in South Africa. This overlooks the fact that South Africa has made it a capital crime publicly to demand corporate withdrawal...
Wilkinson said the History and Literature Department will be hard pressed to maintain the current level of tutorial supervision since the opening of the concentration to all students has generated an increase in demand for tutorials...