Word: demand
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...package of cooperative measures aimed at improving trade relations and both nations' economies. The central bank of Japan cut its discount rate, the interest charged on loans to commercial banks, from 3.5% to 3%. Japanese officials also agreed to cut taxes and raise spending. These stimulative measures may boost demand for imports from America. The U.S., in turn, vowed to cut its budget deficit and to fight protectionist measures...
...winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1985, has written a novel to make critics feel their tremendous responsibility. How can the reviewer force his reader to understand that A Summons to Memphis, this sharply perceptive, humorous novel of only 200 pages, should be read at once? How can he demand, "Just stop what you're doing right now and read this book," without seeming either blunt or irrelevant...
...Epps said that the committee has no plansto expand the number of available tickets for theupcoming dance should demand exceed supply. Hesaid that did not think space restrictions inMemorial Hall posed a problem because there willbe many other events that night to attractstudents...
Change comes slowly at Harvard, if at all. By drawing out decisions over many years, the administration can count on the lack of institutional memory among the annually reshuffled student body. But the demand for an end to inquisitorial bodies aimed at political protesters has been loud and clear for over 15 years. The time is long overdue for a body that will do justice to the community's concerns...
Shen and others are quick to point out minority students' demands for a Third World Center, a perennial sore point in relations between the Harvard administration and students. The Foundation was created in response to this demand, and its original charter does speak of a "Junior Common Room space" for minority student organizations. Last year's Eck Report acknowledges the problem of space for minority groups, "urg(ing) the University to consider ways in which this concern might...