Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like, it's two in the afternoon, for Christ's sake. Most normal people have already been to sleep at least once already"). But, as in Bright Lights, McInerney is best at being mean; the novel is too shrill, too chill for compassion. Social satire may not demand a big heart, but moralizing does, and when McInerney tries to put a bleak cautionary spin onto the proceedings, the book goes out of control, just like Alison's life, and comes crashing down, leaving no trace...
...nuns paraded behind a banner proclaiming JESUS LOVES DEMOCRACY. Government employees brandished a MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS sign, while retired military men proudly unfurled a banner reading ASSOCIATION OF FORMER COMMANDERS AND OLD COMRADES. From self-identified housewives to state factory workers and students, all were there to demand...
Orderly and friendly, yet adamant and determined, the people of Burma pressed their demand for the three-week-old government of President Maung Maung to step down and open a path to a free, democratic state. Finally the regime began to buckle under the pressure. At an extraordinary session on Saturday, the ruling Burma Socialist Program Party gave way -- at least, partway -- to the popular clamor and declared an apparent end to the country's 26 years of one-party domination. The B.S.P.P. said elections would be held and multiple parties would participate. But the government set no date...
...Kiss." That is too much for the Moral Majority, which in the mid-1980s helped persuade a few retailers, including 7-Eleven stores, to stop selling Playboy and other skin mags. In its Liberty Report newspaper, the Moral Majority urges readers to write to Sassy's advertisers and demand that the firms boycott the magazine...
...prefer the more cynical explanation: demand for "family values" rises as the family, in reality, declines. With divorce routine, when 60% of America's children will live with a single parent before age 18, with inner-city families entirely shattered, our politicians are called upon to provide symbolic denial of facts they cannot change...