Word: demand
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Dole said that in order to reduce the deficit, he would demand both a line-item veto and a balanced-budget amendment to the constitution. Dole said that as president he would call for a Constitutional Convention if the balanced-budget measure failed to win Congressional approval...
...CONSERVATIVES organized around the nation that slavery's most damning legacy is not white racism but the psychological crippling of Blacks who lack the pride necessary to compete. "A central theme in Afro-American political and intellectual history is the demand for respect, the struggle to gain inclusion within the civic community, to become co-equal participants in the national enterprise," Loury wrote in a 1985 New Republic article...
...help meet the growing demand for imported child care, the American Institute for Foreign Study and the Experiment in International Living have obtained permission from the U.S. Information Agency to bring in 3,100 young Europeans as part of a two-year experiment. The host families provide airfare, room and board, and a $100-a-week stipend in exchange for up to 45 hours of child care and light housework. Already, demand far exceeds supply. The two sponsoring groups have received 40,000 requests for information from U.S. families and are petitioning the Government for a larger quota of visas...
Councilor Saundra M. Graham said she owed the first few of her eight City Council terms to Harvard students' help. Graham entered local politics in 1970 when she led a group of neighbors in disrupting Harvard's commencement exercises to demand housing from the University...
Levy an energy tax. This could be a twofer: it would not only help ease the budget deficit but could also reduce the trade gap by discouraging demand for imported oil. A tax of $5 per bbl. on annual U.S. imports of some 1.5 billion bbl. of foreign crude would raise approximately $7.5 billion in extra revenues. An alternative is a gasoline tax of 5 cents per gal. in addition to the current 9 cents federal levy, which would produce an extra $5 billion or so (1986 U.S. consumption: 112 billion gal.). Though energy taxes tend to be regressive, citizens...