Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Demand for workers is most acute in New England, with a 3.3% rate of unemployment. In New Hampshire the figure is 2.3%, the lowest in the U.S. The region's economy has been fueled by military contractors, who benefited from the defense buildup of the early 1980s, and by the small firms that have flourished in the high-tech corridor along Route 128, near Boston. The explosive expansion in the demand for labor has far exceeded the region's growth in supply. In Massachusetts, for example, the number of jobs grew 11.6% between 1980 and 1986, while the population increased...
There is another product in high demand but short supply on the Soviet side these days, thanks to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's antialcohol campaign. As a result, Chinese traders make room in their sample cases for bottles of mao-tai, a fiery 120-proof sorghum liquor -- not to sell but to lubricate negotiations with their Siberian hosts. Says Dimitri Krolov, a Soviet regional trade official who joined the train in Zabaikalsk: "Business is booming. We manufacture what they want, they grow what we want...
Iran requested the council meeting to seek condemnation of the U.S. action and demand withdrawal of all American forces from the Persian Gulf, but has been unable to enlist a majority to support a resolution...
Higher prices mean the dollar amount of agricultural exports could rise this year even as the actual volume may fall. Producers in Europe, South America and Australia will step in to meet the demand that U.S. growers fail to serve. Once those competitors gain market share, American farmers will have to struggle to reclaim it. That is just one more reason they are praying for rain and cheering every drop...
...feeling the full impact of a war it has glorified, enhance the stature of those radicals in Iran who call for violence and not negotiation, and weaken U.S. credibility once again in the Middle East. No wonder Iranian officials are seizing the initiative after this incident to demand an American withdrawal...