Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago, the U.S. steel industry was floundering in its worst recession since the 1930s. One reason: since the mid-1970s, global demand for steel has stagnated at about 475 million tons a year, but mills have been producing an average 700 million tons annually. The huge oversupply sent prices and profits into a tailspin. In the U.S. the years of reckoning were 1982 through 1986, when losses amounted to $12 billion...
...dollar's steep two-year decline, which was expected to slow Japanese exports to the U.S. by making them more expensive. One reason for the lack of success is the still considerable U.S. budget deficit (fiscal 1988 total: $155 billion), which overstimulates the American economy and its demand for Japanese products...
...Thursday that looked certain to be affirmative and to pave the way for confirmation by the full Senate. That morning, however, Committee Chairman Sam Nunn of Georgia and ranking Republican John Warner of Virginia agreed to put off the vote indefinitely. Their explanation: new allegations serious enough to demand a check...
...predicts that once the movement catches fire, he will be able to hawk the shirts in dining halls and unload them on giant sloth fans at $7 a crack. Keep that in mind when you are tempted to discount John Kenneth Galbraith's thesis that producers create the demand for their products...
...agree with these latter arguments. In my opinion, being Jewish means more than being a stereotypical WASP who dances the horah. Jewish history, interests, and morality demand that Jews reach out to other minorities in the interests of justice and fairness...