Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican side, Jack Kemp could ask Dukakis what he would do as president if, with aid to the contras cut off, the Sandinistas suddenly renege on their promises to abide by the Arias Plan, cracking down on all internal opposition. Bob Dole could demand that Dukakis explain what exactly "good jobs at good wages" means and how he would achieve such a goal without unleashing inflation...
...Since then, the traditional locker-room atmosphere on the bus has softened. Says Washington correspondent Alessandra Stanley: "Many of us 'girls' have sat in the back and listened to men compare notes on diets, aerobic exercise routines and their infants' teething problems, and watched them indignantly demand yogurt and Perrier from stewardesses vainly trying to push Bloody Marys and peanuts...
...throughout the 1980s: the overvalued dollar will destroy American industry; or, the undervalued dollar will hand American industry to foreigners; or, when the foreigners get tired of spotting us, interest rates will shoot up, and we'll have a recession; or, as the trade deficit narrows, domestic and export demand will combine to create inflation; or, the burning of Brazilian rain forests will deprive the world of oxygen, and we'll all choke to death; etc. But the sky hasn't fallen. And trying to persuade people it's going to fall any minute is probably not the best...
Gray says there is a "supply and demand" problem. The department currently has between 40 and 60 teaching fellows, plus faculty members who serve as thesis advisers, but this apparently is not enough for the more than 80 concentrators who want to write theses. Government advisers usually assist with only three these because of time constraints, Gray says...
Sheldon Tandler, comptroller of Harvard Real Estate (HRE), offered a possible explanation. He said "a combination of inflation and a demand for housing" caused the increase in market-rate rents. He added that rates are arrived at by regression analysis and reviewed by a faculty committee...