Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poland and Hungary, former one-party Communist states, are hurtling toward Western-style democracy and hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets in East Germany to demand a similar transformation...
...Toqueville's predictions hold true, students will feel incapable of controlling their own lives. They will demand greater concentration requirements and an expanded core curriculum--thus relieving them of the burden of electives...
Most important, if the Justice Department finds that these schools have violated the Anti-Trust Act--a conclusion that is likely given the government's need to produce results since it has so far only spouted rhetoric--it will simply demand an end to such practices without allowing for a new form of regulation. And an end to the "overlap group" and other such discussions among schools will mean an end to the practice of setting across-the-board financial aid levels according to need...
Many of King's other friends and associates banded together last week to ! demand that Abernathy "repudiate" his account of King's last hours. Among those signing a wire of protest were Jesse Jackson, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, and SCLC's current president, Joseph Lowery. They speculated that "to sell books" someone other than Abernathy wrote the offending passages. But Harper & Row spokesman Steve Sorrentino insists that "the book is entirely Abernathy's words." In Memphis on a promotion tour, Abernathy, who has had two strokes and suffers from glaucoma, declared, "I am not a Judas. I have written nothing...
...component for a computer is not hardware but software, the instructions that make the machine work. When programs like Lotus 1-2-3 made the personal computer a runaway success in the early 1980s, IBM and other firms made a strategic decision to let Japan supply the demand for memory chips that U.S. chipmakers could not meet. The Japanese built costly factories to fabricate an enormous supply of chips. But then their price plummeted way below the cost of production, saddling Japan's conglomerates with huge losses...