Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past year, Tokyo has spurred consumer demand at home and relied less on exports to fuel its economy, thus blunting charges of predatory trading practices. But Japan continues to refuse to allow the yen to be used as an international reserve currency, a move that would help protect nations that trade with Japan against wide foreign-exchange swings...
...region's thirst will only grow: California's population is expected to climb from 27 million to 36 million over the next two decades. That will require an increase in water use of 1.3 million acre-feet a year.* To meet this daunting future demand, the California department of waterworks has proposed $700 million worth of new dams, aqueducts and other works. That plan, however, is widely dismissed as unaffordable and unnecessary: one study calculates that it could deliver water only at a cost of over $500 an acre- foot, twice the present price for Southern California's coastal cities...
...widely understood. Many outsiders, as well as most locals surveyed by the Western Governors' Association, falsely believe the region would have sufficient water if only profligate cities like Newport Beach, Calif., and Scottsdale, Ariz., made do with fewer swimming pools and car washes. Rather than match supply to demand by steeply raising water rates, most political leaders merely exhort residents to take shorter showers and flush toilets less often. Los Angeles will soon spend $600,000 broadcasting such bromides...
...York wants to invest the fund in public works like housing projects. Says he: "The future, albeit temporary, riches of the Social Security system offer us a genuine opportunity to deal with some pressing national needs." But critics charge that using the surplus for general governmental programs creates a demand that is hard to turn off once the need for the retirement funds is at hand...
Traumatic injuries -- including violent accidents, shootings and stabbings -- are the leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of one and 44. The bleeding and shock that frequently ensue demand a degree of speed and precision not often available in most hospital emergency rooms. Experts believe that of the more than 140,000 Americans who are killed by traumatic injuries each year, at least 25,000 die needlessly because they do not receive the proper care in time...