Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University yesterday called the demand illegally discriminatory and out of proportion to the 9.3 per cent non-white population listed for Boston and Cambridge in the 1960 census. Harvard does not have the power to demand a quota, the University added, because it cannot interfere with the practice of outside contractors on projects already underway...
...charged the Administration with failing to respond positively to its demands, particularly the demand that 20 per cent of construction workers at Harvard be black or "third world...
...concerned, talks broke down right after the first session," OBU president Lee said yesterday. "It was clear that the Administration was not ready to discuss construction workers or the 20 per cent demand...
...sole vehicle for their celebration, so the burden of arousing the crowd, of embracing and proving all our dreams of the Stones-violent, sensual, perverse, etc.-rests on him: we must remake the concert with his image. And it's hard to maintain the tempo of abuse that we demand of him, even with all our fantasies riding on his every move. After all, someone in the MC5 took a shit on stage in Seattle; Morrison whipped his cock out in Florida. What else can a poor boy do? At the Boston concert the Stones' MC invited...
...FIGURE of 20 per cent is an arbitrary one, based on a rough percentage of black and other minority people in the nation's population. It had become clear in the course of the struggle against the construction industry that blacks must demand that a specific minimum number of workers be hired. Phrases such as "increased participation," "substantially larger numbers," "renewed efforts," and "good faith" (reminiscent of those Harvard has used) have too often proved empty rhetoric in the past...