Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call divestment to a vote, Overseers would have to investigate and to assume increased responsibility for Harvard's purse, limiting to some extent the self-perpetuating Corporation's primary source of power. Although Bok includes Overseers in some of the financial decisions facing the University, divestment candidates would demand financial review on their terms...
...notion decrees that whenever a country's currency declines in value, the national trade balance worsens before it improves, in a line that loops down and up in the shape of the letter J. The reason: immediately upon depreciation, the price of imports rises, but a contraction of the demand for such imports takes time. In the interim, the trade-balance differential widens. Economists usually estimate that at least 18 months is required before any expected improvements in the trade balance will appear...
...civil war and shadowed by the looming hulk of American weaponry. This was the gallivanting political melodrama Salvador. Stone dedicated the film to his recently deceased father. "I remember one conversation we had right before he died. He said, 'You'll do all right. There'll always be a demand for great stories and great storytellers.' So finally he forgave me for going into the film business...
...slightly at week's end, weathermen predicted a new plunge in temperatures and warned that there was no relief in sight from the harshest winter in recent memory. One almost certain result: a hike in the cost of oil on both sides of the Atlantic as the sudden European demand drives up prices in world markets...
...demand for Hamadei could hit a legal snag. Under terms of a 1978 U.S.-West German extradition treaty, Bonn will not extradite suspects who would face the death penalty in an American court for the crime involved. Hamadei could be executed if he is convicted in the U.S. At week's end American and West German diplomats in Bonn were discussing other possible means of bringing Hamadei to the U.S. besides formal extradition. Said a State Department official: "It's just a question of working out procedures." A Justice Department spokesman refused to say whether the U.S. would waive...