Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Siegel had confessed that while at Kidder, Peabody from June 1984 to January 1986, he had been part of an insider-trading ring that included Wigton, Freeman and Tabor. Last week Siegel pleaded guilty to tax evasion and criminal conspiracy to violate U.S. securities laws, and agreed to a demand by the Securities and Exchange Commission that he give up $9 million in illegal profits. He had become a target of the investigation because of his position at Drexel Burnham, which has had close ties to Boesky...
...tape is its quality. Free of tape hiss and static crackling common to ordinary tape and record players, the DAT's sound is so fine that it is bound to encourage home taping of prerecorded music. To prevent unauthorized duplication, record companies and industry organizations have joined ranks to demand that manufacturers of digital players equip them with special computer chips that block the copying of prerecorded music. The Reagan Administration is expected this week to introduce legislation to require such protection...
...baby boomers have jostled through life competing for education, jobs, housing. When the baby-bust generation enters adulthood, however, it may discover the benefits of doing without: without as much unemployment, without as much demand for housing or cutthroat competition for good jobs, possibly even without as much crime. But the labor force, which will grow at a slower pace, may also find itself without the ability to sustain U.S. economic expansion or support an increasingly elderly population. "Business is going to be discombobulated," says Demographics Analyst Ben Wattenberg of the American Enterprise Institute. "I see the housing industry tearing...
...women in the baby-bust generation. Women tend to marry men a few years older than themselves, and younger women will find larger numbers of potential spouses among the baby boomers. Nonetheless, demographers predict that the smaller cohort of the baby busters will form fewer families, resulting in less demand for housing and household goods. By the middle of the next decade, the number of new households a year could drop to 1.2 million, down from an average of 1.7 million during the 1970s. Says George Sternlieb, director of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University: "You simply...
Waves of immigrants -- both legal and illegal -- will help fill the demand for new workers. Leon Bouvier, visiting professor at Tulane's School of Public Health, predicts that in Texas, New York, California, Illinois and Florida the growth in the labor force in the first 30 years of the next century will be almost entirely made up of women and immigrants...