Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot hide from the fact that our government subsidizes suffering and oppression in the Third World. 200,000 Americans are going to Washington with a sense of responsibility, to demand that same sense of responsibility from our government. No longer should we spend our tax dollars to bomb Salvadoran villages, to machine gun Nicaraguan peasants, or to split south African miners from their families...
...Demand for tickets on college campuses has been great...
...driven up the price of Japan's products in foreign markets and angry trade partners are threatening to obstruct those exports, the Japanese are trying to change once again. Government officials are looking to make the Japanese more voracious consumers, thus loosening dependence on exports and boosting demand for imports. Sacrifice is out, self-indulgence is in. The Japanese are being encouraged to work less, play more, save less, spend more and, while they are at it, buy foreign...
...strategies suggest themselves. You might issue a challenge: "Don't you think everybody has a right to a little quiet in their own room? Can't you imagine circumstances in which you would demand just that?" You might appeal to roommate history: At the start of this semester we agreed not to blast the stereo after two in the morning--surely you've not forgotten already...
...really ignore the product? Can we--will we--allow ourselves to take capitalism to its extreme? Will we all become straight-line economists, caring only for supply and demand and giving not a thought to what the supply and demand is for? Is the surrogate mother's child really comparable (let alone analogous) to a work of art? A work of art may be a part of the artist who creates it, but it surely is not human. No matter how beautiful, it will not grow into adulthood, complete with a psyche of its own. If he insists on using...