Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...porous, pluralistic and permissive society offers extraordinary opportunities, chances to hide and to advance, for the enterprising and imaginative criminal. But, most fundamentally, U.S. society helps the criminal by toleration (occasionally even admiration) and by providing a ready market for his services. Illicit gambling thrives because of the popular demand for it. Politicians of questionable integrity remain in office because...
...less than two years. In fact, devaluation itself has a tendency to accelerate inflation, because the automatic increases that it brings in the prices of imported products tend to work their way through an economy. To make a devaluation succeed, a country must clamp down quickly on the consumer demand that pushes up prices, pulls in costly imports and diverts to home consumption some of the production that should go into exports...
...individual expression or, as one General Electric personnel psychologist put it, "opportunity for impact." They are getting the message through to chief executives that they are not willing to put in the usual stint as a trainee, shuffling paper and learning company routines. "These younger, better-educated people demand a different kind of direction," says Edward J. Hanley, chairman of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. "You have got to give them their head, put them in positions where they can make mistakes." Because many large companies are accustomed to stockpiling skills, the brightest young executives often move into small firms, where...
...California pharmaceutical research firm, argues: "It is not good enough any more just to be a manager, to do a good job making and selling candy bars. You have to feel that the product or service coming out of your organization is really important to society." Other young managers demand time off from their jobs to do consulting for black businessmen or to assist in urban development programs. They prefer to work for companies involved in projects such as pollution control or urban renewal...
...with Talmudic thoroughness, he compiled a most impressive file and bibliography on marijuana, and has since arduously campaigned for its legalization. As a pacifist, he has crusaded for an immediate end to the war in Viet Nam. As a lecturer and reader, he is in constant demand at progressive campuses across the nation, where he is apt to deliver a formal talk in the university auditorium, then forgather with a more committed group for a symposium where he sets a tone of informality by occasionally taking off all his clothes and encouraging his interlocutors to do likewise. This...