Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dear wife and people and all...human society and especially the Red Cross, don't leave me," he said. "So to help me move I demand from the American people to oblige Israel to release Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid immediately because his kidnapping is not human...
Inventories of unsold cars have swollen to 1.8 million vehicles. At current sales levels, that is a 75-day supply, well above what is considered healthy, and Detroit is finally acknowledging the sharp downturn in demand and cutting production plans for the rest of the year. Output at General Motors assembly plants in the third quarter will be the lowest of any July-September period in 19 years, Chrysler's the smallest in a decade. While none of the automakers are scheduling long-term shutdowns, many workers are being idled for the first time since the last recession. Ford, which...
...front of Communist Party headquarters in the Ukrainian city of Makeyevka, 5,000 miners in battered helmets, their faces and overalls black with coal dust, staged a sit-in to demand better working and living conditions; their ranks eventually swelled to almost 150,000 from 94 mines. Far to the east, in the Kuzbass in Siberia, the numbers were even greater. About 180,000 miners abandoned their pits to occupy central squares in nine cities, plastering reviewing stands with homemade signs proclaiming DOWN WITH BUREAUCRATS and KUZBASS: CLEAN AIR, MEAT FOR EVERYONE, WE DEMAND SOCIAL JUSTICE...
...matter how pleased Gorbachev may be to see a political awakening among the indifferent Soviet citizens, he must recognize that some of their economic demands are potentially threatening. In addition to their attacks on the bureaucracy, the strikers are demanding better food and housing and more consumer goods. The government has responded by flying in tons of supplies as a palliative, setting a costly and hazardous precedent. Most of the Soviet population eats poorly and lives in inferior housing. If workers everywhere rise up and demand more and better, the system's stability could be endangered...
...provide reassuring reading, some economists think such forecasts belong on the fiction shelf. If U.S. economic history is any guide, a soft landing is a long shot. That kind of gentle slowdown occurred only once before, in 1967, when the military buildup during the Viet Nam War fueled a demand for capital goods...