Word: demanding
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That would probably be, however, why we have exams right around the corner. Well, if I haven't reflected, at least I've found a reason to relearn the components of aggregate demand. Hello sourcebook...
Nasrallah: They wanted to make a split between the people and the resistance. But the resistance is now more popular than ever. They wanted to terrorize civilians so they would demonstrate on the streets to demand the disarming of Hizballah. They wanted a clash between the resistance and the government in Lebanon--just as Israel persuaded Arafat to fight Hamas. None of these goals were achieved...
...course, stimulating demand in a tight market, as the Republicans suggest, tends to raise prices and thus may not offer consumers any relief. In fact, it would relieve the Treasury of some $4.8 billion...
Nowhere in this hydrocarbon hysteria did the notion arise that maybe gas prices are exactly where they ought to be. The price of any commodity is a means of balancing supply and demand, and right now the balance is going in favor of higher prices. In gasoline's case, demand has clearly been on the upswing. It used to be that Americans were happy with a full tank and an open road. Now they don't even need the road, given the growing passion for heavy sport-utility vehicles. "If there hadn't been this shift to larger vehicles," says...
...throw in the weather. The exceptionally long and cold winter in the U.S. caused refiners to devote more of their capacity to meeting the greater demand for heating fuel. This, in turn, gave them little time to convert their production to meet the blossoming spring and summer demand for gasoline. In the week ending April 19, the American Petroleum Institute reported that gasoline production, hobbled by a series of accidents and closures of refineries, slipped more than 220,000 bbl. a day, to just under 7.3 million bbl. By Memorial Day, production will be about...