Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ticket-seller is a kindly old lady who looks up from a Screen Romances to demand proof-of-age. If you hand her a hastily marked-over expired driver's license, and act incredulous when she questions it, she will take your two dollars and wave...
...same time, Eckstein shows, economic growth is being maintained--stimulated in 1968 almost entirely by the private sector. In the last few years the stimulus came from Vietnam spending. This means that the increase in private demand this year will probably make up for the levelling of the total defense budget. In this sense "the economy is being weaned from its dependence on military spending," he says...
Channelling large sums of money into the cities becomes an especially viable alternative given the apparent capacity of private demand to generate adequate economic expansion. This tendency will clearly be strengthened by the grant of more spending power to the ghettoes, a development that might draw investment from the big corporations...
...advocates of the plan pointed out that demand should double in a decade. More important, they predicted that steel production could trigger a new era of industrial growth. So far, Taiwan's businessmen have concentrated on light manufacturing items such as electronic components and consumer goods; a steel plant could produce a heavy-machinery industry and give further impetus to the country's infant shipbuilding efforts...
...this profound Israeli scenery is like everybody squirting beer on each other at a fraternity picnic. All the action moves along double time, like a fast-motion film; everything is jerky, smaller than human. With so much motion, there is no time for motive. War, sex, poetry and friendship demand some viewpoint from the author. Levin supplies none...