Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remaining issue at hand is the union's demand for a special code of conduct for stewards," he said...
...Ueberroth suspended seven players for one year without pay for using and distributing drugs. To be reinstated, the players must give 10% of their 1986 salaries to drug-rehabilitation programs, contribute 100 hours of community service in each of the next two years and agree to drug testing on demand for the rest of their careers...
...much as a third of the South American cocaine entering the U.S. Mexico is also grabbing larger shares of the U.S. markets for heroin and marijuana. Partly because of Mexico's economic woes, struggling farmers have boosted their crops of opium poppies and marijuana plants. U.S. consumer demand for their output has increased as well. Mexico's illicit heroin- refining labs have upgraded their equipment so that their product, previously a crude substance dubbed "Mexican brown," now competes with purer varieties from Southeast Asia. At the same time, Mexico's marijuana has made a comeback with bargain-minded smokers...
Developing countries see drug abuse as America's dilemma, not theirs. Says Bolivian Interior Minister Fernando Barthelemy: "It is unfair to put most of the weight on the coca-producing countries when it is a simple law of demand. American and Western European consumers keep doping more and more. Consequently more coca is planted." For that reason, U.S. corporations that try to stem the demand for drugs are getting right to the heart of the problem...
...President's point men, Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, gave stark warnings last week about the Communist threat in Central America. But both also took pains not to demand the complete overthrow of a regime with which the U.S. still maintains diplomatic ties. In a speech last week, Shultz declared that Nicaragua could become "a Soviet and Cuban base on the mainland of Latin America, a regime whose consolidated power will allow it to spread subversion and terrorism throughout the hemisphere." Nevertheless, he offered a rational, carefully worded definition of the Administration's goals...