Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daily double, long a favorite of area students, took an enforced vacation starting in September because of the even stronger demand for first-run films, one of the theater's owners said yesterday...
Democratic leaders concede that the White House will be able next time to salvage at least some aid for the contras. The critical questions: How much? What kind? With what strings attached? Reagan originally chose to demand all or nothing, but many Congressmen are searching for a middle ground. Unwilling to cut off the contras altogether, yet eager to explore diplomatic avenues as well, they want to approach the Sandinistas with a mixture of carrot and stick...
...factory, and life is desperation on the dole. For bad times, big gambles: send slick-shaggy Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) to Tokyo so he can persuade a thriving Japanese automaker to establish a plant in his hometown. Then, when the do-it-our-way executives of Assan Motors demand that their American employees work harder for less money, have Hunt convince his pals, speciously, that there is a pot of gold at the end of the assembly line. Poor, distraught workers, when they discover they have been gulled. And poor Hunt, doing the wrong things for the best reasons...
...Nakasone government seems prepared at last to stimulate Japan's domestic demand, a step that has long been urged by the other members of the Group of Five. That would reduce the reliance of Japanese companies on exports, since they could sell more products at home. Says Roger Shields, chief international economist for New York's Chemical Bank: "Japan must assume the responsibilities of a major industrial power, and that will require dramatic changes in its economic structures. Japan cannot maintain the attitude that it must export to live...
Soap-Powders is a brimming piece of choreography, filled with wit and invention and a certain brash confidence. At 29, Morris is the hottest young choreographer in the country. His Seattle-based troupe of 13 dancers is in heavy demand, and other signs of success are visible: bookings in Europe, commissions from established ballet companies (Boston, the Joffrey), a program on next season's PBS Dance in America series, invitations to pump some life into grand opera productions. (Morris choreographed the Dance of the Seven Veils on alternating sopranos in the current Seattle Opera production of Strauss's Salome...