Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calls, $18,952 for clothing (including 3,500 for men's socks, belts, underwear) and $10,555 for toothpaste, soap, beauty aids. Hoping to spare U.S. taxpayers such outlays, the subcommittee urged that the U.S. Government--which spent $450,813 to transport Marcos and the others to "safe haven"--demand reimbursement for the personal bills...
Many inside and outside of the English government believe that a member of the House of Lords should not be a minister or member of the cabinet, let alone Prime Minister. Carrington often comes up as the prime counterexample to the demand of constituency for high-ranking ministers. In one famous episode, the Labour leader in the House of Lords (at a time when Carrington was Tory leader) was debating the abolishment of the House with a left-wing opponent at the Oxford Union, and one of the leftist's most effective arguments for the abolition of Lords was that...
...plants. The rival Social Democrats, who in the elections will be headed by Johannes Rau, the minister-president of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, want to phase out existing facilities "as soon as is feasible." The ecology- minded Greens have been gaining in strength since Chernobyl, and their demand that the nation's 20 commercial atomic plants be immediately closed seems attuned to the mood of the country; a recent survey found that 69% of those questioned oppose further nuclear expansion...
...through its peak childbearing years; between 1980 and 1984, the number of American children under age five grew from 16.3 million to 17.8 million. The increase has brought good times for most children's clothing manufacturers, including traditional leaders like Wisconsin-based Oshkosh B'Gosh (1985 sales: $162 million). Demand for products like its sturdy overalls has almost doubled in the past two years...
...much of the demand for chic clothes originates with the parents. "Some people like to dress their kids up and parade them around for presentation," says Esprit President Douglas Tompkins. In fact, a well-dressed child may be the ultimate status symbol. Observes Dal Dearmin, a vice president at the advertising firm of Quinn & Johnson/BBDO: "Kids are the BMWs of the '80s." If upwardly mobile parents see things that way, the market for $400 dresses and gold-plated cribs may keep right on growing...