Word: demand
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Since U.S. universities graduate some 37,000 lawyers, 16,000 doctors and 51,000 accountants annually, plenty of labor power is available. Upscale service agencies are springing up to match that supply with the new demand. Temporary agencies that place physicians are an especially fast-growing group. Atlanta's Locum Tenens, founded in 1983, has 2,000 doctors on call. The agency's revenues last year reached $3 million, twice the 1984 total. Typically, a general-practice doctor hired through Locum Tenens is paid a fee of $440 a day. The agency provides malpractice coverage and travel expenses...
...reaction from the U.S. hit the fan. William H. Gray III of Pennsylvania, black chairman of the House Budget Committee, angrily withdrew a dinner invitation to Japanese Ambassador Nobuo Matsunaga. Representative Mickey Leland of Texas led the 21-member Congressional Black Caucus in calling on President Reagan to demand an apology. Esteban Torres of California and his 14-member Hispanic Caucus were equally furious...
...patrolmen's central demand is a new work schedule which would give them two days off for every four days on. They now get two days off for every five days of work. While the details of this proposal still need to be worked out, it is certainly a reasonable position. Work schedules based on a four-and-two ratio have been adopted at a variety of university and municipal police departments in the area. In addition the patrolmen's union has expressed a willingness to compromise on a number of pay and benefit issues in order to reach agreement...
...bonus of 500 tickets was added to the 1000 additional passes that the University said it would make available following unforseen student demand. The College had originally planned to distribute 3500 tickets on a first-come-first-served basis...
...planned on a selective basis. Invitations were sent to every current member of the College by means of the Registar's mailing list. Students were asked to respond promptly because capacity was limited. We have expanded it, as you know, and hope to meet a substantial part of the demand for tickets. Only ten percent of the events planned are by invitation...