Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...productivity: 7% of American workers now produce all the nation's food and manufactured goods. Yet unemployment has steadily declined, until it is now at the lowest point in 15 years. While the U.S. worries about the hard core of "unemployables," it has a limitless demand for new skills. In the new information industry, the computer and related fields, 1,000,000 programmers will be needed in the next six years (v. 200,000 now so employed). Most of the economic targets of the '60s have been achieved. In the American economy, the immigrants' vision has been...
...esthetics. Despite extremist behavior, for many of them right now the "quality of life" is something far simpler than it is to the white students: a better life, a better job-largely the products of material progress. Along with the Viet Nam War it was, after all, a demand for a betterment of the Negroes' condition that first spurred the young, and indeed the country, to the present reappraisal of itself...
...failure of Co-Op City does not stop with its debilitating environment. If the U.S. is going to meet the demand for housing without even more public aid, construction costs must come down. One promising way is to apply technical innovation, including large-scale prefabrication. But stiff municipal building codes and the power of the building trades' unions have blocked most such attempts, while construction costs spiral up, 12% a year...
...round table represented a compromise that did not completely satisfy anybody, but it left intact the vital interests of all parties and permitted each to view the conference in whatever way it chose. It satisfies the Communist demand that the Front sit down as an equal partner in a four-party meeting. At the same time, since the table will be flanked on two sides by smaller, rectangular tables for secretariat personnel, the allies can point to that as proof that the conference is a two-sided affair. Picayune though that may seem, it is an important point; it allows...
...intense diplomatic maneuvering. In late December, the U.S., clearly hoping for a turn in the negotiations before the end of Lyndon Johnson's term, had begun pressuring Saigon to accept a Hanoi offer of an undemarcated round table, with the provision that the North Vietnamese would waive their demand for name plates and flags for the four delegations. Saigon demurred, still fearful that sitting at a round table with the Front would imply recognition...