Word: demand
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...report stated that the program hopes to "meet the growing demand in American society for men and women with such dual competency for a wide range of policy-making, managerial, and administrative positions in industry, government, and education...
...WAKE of several successes this year, divestment activists at Harvard face a perilous crossroads. The movement is strong, but the University seems intransigent and impregnable on activists' central demand: divestment...
...dissent roundly from that fatalism. "It's wrong to confuse a business failure with an auditing failure," argues William Gladstone, chairman of New York City-based Arthur Young. "Auditors don't manage companies." To Gladstone and many others in the profession, the kind of foolproof auditing that some critics demand is prohibitively expensive for clients and, at times, beyond the purview of C.P.A.s. Accounting executives contend that corporate auditors must be hypercautious in issuing statements that could affect the survival of individual corporations. Asks a Big Eight C.P.A.: "What company has not gone through a bad patch, yet survived...
...price fall, it's Christmas in April as utility bills drop and commuters drive home with more of their paychecks in hand. And let's remember that as oil prices drop, so do prices for just about every other consumer product. That means more real income, more consumer demand and more jobs--even considering increased unemployment in the capital-intensive oilfields. So let's have no illusions that Bush's "price stability" is motivated by concern for anyone but the fat-cat oilmen who contribute to his campaign fund...
...Incantation" is a kind of wandering epic in search of its audience, that is, its "people." At one point, the trial of a student charged with insurrection against the government is interrupted by the demand to know who the minjung or "people" really are. The open search for an identity critically reflects on the problem of imposing an artistic unity on an everyday reality that remains, in its future prospects, open-ended...