Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with young students and had a chance to talk with my family. After hearing all those opinions, I came to the conclusion that although the parliamentary cabinet system is a good democratic system -- and maybe the ideal for the future -- an immediate answer should be given to the demand of the people, which is, "Let us choose our own leader by our own vote...
...England when the cannons fired and only came back, as he put it, "to make a fortune by Washington alone; I calculate upon making a plurality of portraits." He did not die rich, but he was said to be able to whip off a Washington on demand in two hours flat. Stuart's diction was as fluent as Peale's was meticulous and creaky...
...backed contra war. As long as the war goes on, it will be impossible to demand that the government in Nicaragua advance toward democracy and political pluralism. The contras are the excuse for everything: to eliminate all traces of liberty, to make the state more dictatorial and to justify the failure of a centralized economy...
Ironically, the Kims and Chun share some views. While the opposition leaders demand a full range of basic democratic freedoms, they largely agree with Chun on economic and foreign policies. The Kims would preserve the government and military bureaucracies, and make no major foreign policy shifts. Nor would they disband the giant trading houses that have helped propel South Korea's rapid growth. "We can live with the opposition's economic program," says one businessman...
...demand for day care is exploding as women pour into the U. S. work force. But parents are finding that child care is scarce, expensive and often of alarmingly poor quality. Some states have taken action; most have not. Meanwhile, researchers are raising worrisome questions about the psychological well- being of the child- care generation. See LIVING...