Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted to be a concert violinist. But after his teacher sent him a ten-year-old pupil of his own, Galamian discovered that he had an even deeper instinct for teaching. By the time he settled in Paris at the age of 21, his lessons were so much in demand that he had no time to think about performing. He might still be teaching in Paris today if World War II had not forced him to emigrate...
Precocious. The streak has been going for nearly seven years. In 1961, a Los Angeles photographer spotted Craig and his younger brother Chris, then four and every bit as much of a freckled carrottop, and put them into commercials. Soon both boys were in demand as child actors. Craig has had child leads in Gunsmoke, Lassie and Run for Your Life, and in October he appeared in Star Trek. As actor and pianist, Craig has earned well over $200,000 so far, and he owns an apartment house in the Los Angeles suburb of Sherman Oaks...
...every self-respecting Negro has a right to resent-and does resent." As a semanticist, Hayakawa said, he wished to comment on "the intellectually slovenly habit, now popular among whites as well as blacks, of denouncing as racist those who oppose or are critical of any Negro tactic or demand...
Trouble is, that appetite has led many U.S. businessmen to demand protection in turn. Justifiably or not, Congress this year has been deluged with bills to put import quotas or similar nontariff barriers on steel, textiles, footwear and dozens of other products. The temptation to erect trade barriers is seductive. For somehow, the U.S. must end or at least substantially reduce its persistent balance of payments deficit; otherwise the dollar may face the same pressures as the franc and the devalued pound...
Helpless and Hopeless. A likely answer is that people are just plain scared of crime, and so, as a result, they either ignore it or else demand harsh retaliation. In turn, the U.S. penal system punishes criminal symptoms rather than cures criminal causes. The product is more crime...