Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company will produce the sticks from the area's abundant aspen trees. Projected first-year revenues: up to $8 million. Lakewood has presold its first five years of production to three Japanese restaurant suppliers, who have been unable to obtain enough sticks from Asian manufacturers. Japan's demand for the disposable chopsticks is nearly insatiable: 20 billion pairs a year...
...current malaise was brought on by the exceptionally strong yen, which is now valued at 162 to the dollar, up nearly 40% since its February 1985 low. The yen has also risen against some European currencies -- 15% vs. the British pound, for example. The robust yen cuts demand for Japan's exports by making them more expensive to foreigners...
...COURSE, the Democrats will be criticized for such an approach. Some Reagan supporters will demand that they be gentle because the United States has important foreign policy goals, such as arms control, that will be set back if the President is too badly damaged. Others will call Democrats mean-spirited for being gleeful about the crisis...
...most aggressive voices among Democrats has been Sen. Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, who emerged from a Senate Intelligence Committee closed hearing to demand that Reagan "come clean with the American people...
...protesters had scheduled a noon rally before the student union Thursday to accuse police of brutality during the arrests and to demand that the school ban the spy agency from campus by February 4, when trustees next meet...