Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Legitimate Fears The overriding social task for the U.S. is to achieve ra cial justice and heal the most serious breach in American so ciety since the Civil War. The hard fact is that this will demand sacrifices by all white Americans, including the lower middle class. But no permanent domestic accord can be reached if the white lower middle class remains per suaded that it is being called upon for more than its fair share of those sacrifices. The Kerner commission cited "white racism" as the principal cause of racial violence. Up to a point, the charge is just...
...BEING ON TIME: Punctuality has become a virtue that we demand of those around us. Waiting is a squandering of time that angers people in rich countries. Only personal mismanagement, or the inconsiderate behavior of others, will create brief-and highly irritating-periods of involuntary idleness...
...believing that economic growth is perpetual and price rises are inevitable, they will continue to buy and borrow in order to beat still further increases. Once people begin to doubt that "good times" will last forever, the theory goes, then everyone will become more cautious in his buying decisions, demand will slow down-and prices will taper off. This effort to conquer euphoria has at last succeeded in an area of the economy that deeply affects most U.S. adults: the stock market. Wall Street's speculative binge has been replaced by the bear market...
...third drawback is found in the main focus of the program. Designed to let a client chose a job that will offer incentive, the WIN counsellors consider the supply and demand for the job as secondary...
Although WIN will pay to move a client and his dependents to another city if an opening is not available in the home city, it seems to be a rather costly and possibly psychologically damaging play to train someone to do a job for which there is little demand in the original locality...