Word: demand
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Reducing the overall trade deficit will not come any easier. U.S. Treasury officials have repeatedly pressured America's major trading partners, especially Japan and Germany, to stimulate their economies. This would bolster demand for American products and thus reduce the U.S. trade gap. But both nations are wary of taking this step. One reason is their leaders' reluctance to fuel growth for fear of igniting inflation...
...been a little better than nine years since these women began their weekly marches outside Government House in downtown Buenos Aires to demand information on their "disappeared" children. For the first six years, when a ruthless military dictatorship ruled the land, they were ridiculed as "the Crazy Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" because they weren't silent like all the rest. For the last three years, in which Argentina has enjoyed a return to democratic rule, the mothers of the plaza have continued to don their characteristic white kerchiefs to issue more broad (some will say more ill-defined...
...remains to be seen whether democracy will be able to give the mothers what they seek. For all their diverse political concerns, they have stuck steadfastly to their demand for information about their children's fate. President Alfonsin has thus far been unable to crack the SIDE, the state intelligence service. Nobody knows whether any records still exist, or whether they were destroyed, like so many lives, before the 1978 World Cup whitewash...
...kidnapers' demands mixed greed with politics. They called for $50,000 in ransom and the reinstatement of a local official dismissed during political purges after Aquino came to power. But their most important demand was very simple. One kidnaper told the nuns, "It's not you we are after. It's Cory. We want her to pay attention...
...assistance from Peru, Ecuador and Colombia -- countries that, along with Bolivia, produce almost all the cocaine sold in the U.S. and Western Europe. Moreover, the day after U.S. forces landed in Bolivia, President Reagan's senior aides met in the White House to discuss steps to curb America's demand for drugs...