Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...benefits -- and pitfalls -- of Zhao's coastal approach are most visible in the contrast between Guangdong and Hunan. Since 1985, for example, Guangdong has allowed the price of pork to rise, as it did earlier with other foodstuffs. Popular demand not only spurred local pig production but, with Guangdong merchants paying more than twice the state-controlled price of 2.80 yuan per kg (35 cents per lb.) for pork in Hunan, also began to siphon off the output of pig farms in the neighboring province. As a result, the supply of pork decreased dramatically in Hunan's state-subsidized markets...
...free- floating prices, Guangdong's 63 million people are barely concerned. After all, their economy grew 18% in 1987. This year the growth rate is a more sedate but still impressive 11%. Guangdong's producers and consumers have learned that when prices are allowed to respond to supply and demand, they may initially shoot up but begin to decline as new production reaches the marketplace...
...Foster St. house has been listed with theRent Control Board at $1000 per month sinceOctober, when Lord obeyed a city demand toregister the unit with the board...
...spent time in a hospital knows, the cost of health care in the U.S. is already at an unbelievable level, and specialists are predicting even higher medical costs in the future. At the same time, the number of elderly Americans, that segment of the population that places the greatest demand on health care facilities, is increasing steadily, and policy analysts are warning that even now the nation is faced with the heavy burden of trying to provide long-term health care for its parents and grandparents...
...intolerable that the working class should have to pay such an inordinate amount of the cost of Reagan's extravagance. While multi-millioniares like Pete Peterson may righteously demand self-sacrifice, they have no concept of what such policy means to the tens of millions of Americans who have already suffered economically under Reagan...