Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yamani urged all oil-producing nations to prevent constant fluctuations in world oil prices by collectively establishing a price structure based on the long-term equilibrium between supply and demand...
...racks. The customers have changed too. Today women buy at least a third of all condoms, and they are not shy about asking their partners to use them. Says Deborah Agre of the Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women: "Women feel they can more legitimately ask, if not demand, that men take responsibility." Manufacturers of this vintage prophylactic have been quick to take note of shifting attitudes. Trojans has downplayed its helmet logo to emphasize mood scenes featuring romantic couples. Mentor and Lady Protex are new brands packaged specifically for women and sold next to tampons, sanitary pads...
...skirts, cowboy boots and other products. The women's jeans, which Lauren tailored with his willowy wife in mind, were cut so lean in the seat and thighs that Women's Wear Daily called the fit "impossible" for regular-size folks. Some department stores were stunned at Lauren's demand that they include in their displays so many props. Among them: cacti, split-rail fences and wagon wheels. Lauren soon moved on to other themes...
...Jazzman Paul Winter, who is now making New Age records, lists his inspirations as he "African mbira (a hand-held instrument played with the fingers or thumbs) as well as the sounds of the humpback whale, eagle and the timber wolf." If much of the music does not actively demand attention in the way that Beethoven or even the Beatles do, it does require some imagination on the part of both composer and listener...
That view is extreme. While CDs were disfigured in some early releases by a forced, overly brilliant presence, they have improved significantly as recording engineers have become more familiar with the different microphone placements demanded by digital recording. To be sure, claims of disc invulnerability have proved overly optimistic. And as the popularity of CDs has increased, so has the number of flawed discs, with too few pressing plants working overtime to meet demand...