Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-feeding economic contraction and recession? Actually, there isn't much dispute about this one. If the deficit were to come down, the Fed would gladly accommodate this "tight" fiscal policy with a "loose" monetary policy. Low interest rates would spur private investment to take up the slack in demand, and everyone would live happily ever after...
Last week a Lebanese terrorist group released a picture of three American hostages playing cards with a fourth hostage, an Indian professor, and said it would let them go if the U.S. would support the nine-month-old Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied territories. Though that demand is patently unacceptable -- should terrorists conclude they could change American foreign policy by taking hostages, the kidnapings would only increase -- it differed considerably in tone from earlier threats to kill the captives. Another terrorist group freed Rudolf Cordes, a West German businessman, two weeks ago without exacting "any political price...
...concessions policy, however, if interpreted literally, would leave an American negotiator nothing to do but continually demand the hostages' unconditional release. In fact, few nations have been that inflexible in such talks. Says Warren Christopher, who helped negotiate the 1981 release of the American hostages held in the Tehran embassy: "The essence of the matter is whether you make a concession that might imply you'd do it again and that encourages subsequent hostage taking." Payment of ransom, whether in cash or weapons and however disguised, does precisely that. On the other hand, a one- shot concession that...
...years ahead, more and more employees are going to demand the opportunity to give their families at least as much attention as their careers. If they are not satisfied, they may just look for work elsewhere. Says Bank of America's Beck: "Corporations are going to have to do more to get good skilled people and to keep them. To do that, we will have to start looking at the whole person, and work on strengthening our understanding of the employee-family relationship...
...north. Former President Gaafar Nimeiri, who was overthrown in a popular uprising in 1985, aggravated the existing religious and racial differences by imposing a set of harsh Islamic laws that call for floggings and amputations for criminal offenses even by non-Muslims. Abolition of the laws is a key demand of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army, whose antigovernment rebels control much of the rural south...