Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PROFESSOR MOSCHITTA is best at using examples to bring theory home to students. He illustrates survival of the fittest with the evolution of tougher puff balls; he shows supply and demand with the "boom or bust beet/brussel sprout market...
...writing for a unanimous three-judge panel of the appeals court. There was no proof that the gap in pay scales reflected discrimination rather than the play of market forces. Federal civil rights legislation is not "intended to abrogate fundamental economic principles such as the law of supply and demand" and thus "does not obligate ((the state)) to eliminate an economic inequality which it did not create...
...show business contagious laughter breeds continual loot; the man who could not get arrested in Hollywood last year is now a well-paid pitchman for Honda and is in constant demand for TV specials and sitcoms. There are a book and a record based on his show, and in January he will begin filming Caddyshack II, a big-budget film about a self-made millionaire who joins a snobbish country club -- only to run afoul of the members when he develops a low-income housing project nearby. In 1987 the comedian will gross well over $1 million...
...Washington. That's where the difficulties are coming from." In the U.S., a group of more than 150 business leaders, lawyers, educators and former Cabinet members, calling themselves the Bipartisan Budget Appeal, took out a two-page advertisement in the New York Times and the Washington Post to demand spending cuts of at least $30 billion to $40 billion in fiscal 1988. Said the group, which included a range of prominent liberals (Edmund Muskie) as well as conservatives (William Simon): "We recognize that the bold political action now needed is impossible unless the people allow it -- indeed, unless they demand...
Dragon is a challenging play, but it is too long to retain rapt audience attention, and it does demand constant alertness to decipher dialect. But Sinophiles and drama enthusiasts will appreciate this spicy story of Chinatown challenge...