Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting Question 1 not only in anticipation of the $265 millions shift, but also in hopes of a second cut--when homeowners start feeling the pain of 100 per cent valuation with tax hikes in the thousands of dollars, they'll descend on city halls throughout Massachusetts and demand budget cuts and tax rollbacks, and business will get the benefits of that...
...while the Carter administration would rather forget Vietnam, Hanoi would welcome renewed, this-time-peaceful relations with the United States. Since talks on the normalization of U.S.-Vietnam relations broke down last December, economic setbacks and natural disasters have forced Vietnam to reconsider its demands for the resumption of diplomatic relations. Saturday the State Department announced that Hanoi had dropped its demand for reparations...
From your story "Lots of Smiles but Few Sales" [Oct. 16], it appears that the generous-but naive-foster parents have nurtured in Japan an avaricious monster. Perhaps it is time for manufacturers, labor unions and the "taxpayer revolt" to demand equivalent protective tariffs, import-license red tape, quotas, etc., for such a shrewd economic predator, who prospers hugely at our inflationary expense...
...state of Massachusetts the subject now seems particularly urgent because of recent cases, especially that of an eleven-year-old Braintree girl whose father sued to get her back from a state-run shelter where she had been placed for her own protection. A judge gave in to his demand. The girl went home on Aug. 1. On Sept. 23 she died in a hospital, apparently after being beaten repeatedly over a period of weeks...
However, Konrad questioned the value of Brustein's non-credit workshop courses in basic acting skills. "Once they get beyond the basics," Konrad said, "I don't know how big a demand there's going...