Word: demanding
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...about his long-term personal investments than about his business. "If the market hasn't recovered by the time I'm ready to go off into the sunset," he says, "this country is really in trouble. But I suspect that we could see a 10% to 20% drop in demand for our temporary labor as firms start to tighten...
Callahan's long-term limits -- medical, economic and social -- will seem harsh to many. He would have Congress restrict Medicare payments for such ! procedures as organ transplants, heart bypasses and kidney dialysis for the aged. States should give legal status to "living wills," allowing individuals to demand that they not be kept alive artificially. Respirators would not be used for the terminally ill. On the emotional issue of extending life by use of feeding tubes, he reasons that as external life extenders in some cases, they also should be treated as artificial intrusions. His logic moves inexorably...
...foreign markets have been less than welcoming. As the global marketing battle takes hold, some countries are reacting with protectionism. Moreover, economic expansion around the world is so sluggish at the moment that few countries besides the U.S. are showing much demand for imports. Observes David Hale, chief economist for Kemper Financial Services: "The U.S. has been playing the role of global borrower and spender of last resort because of a sharp slowdown in the growth rates of other countries...
Bringing down America's twin deficits will demand a wealth of ideas and compromises. No single fix will do the job. Nor are any of the remedies likely to be painless. But the Administration and Congress still have time to tailor a compromise on reducing the budget gap before the Nov. 20 deadline, when $23 billion in arbitrary cuts takes hold under the Gramm-Rudman law. Some reasonable proposals for boosting revenue, cutting spending and reducing the trade deficit...
When students and The Crimson feel that the council has not been effective, they have an obligation to demand that the council better represent their interests; but your editorial espouses a limited vision of student government with which I cannot agree...