Word: demanding
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...have an unspoken agreement to fatten profits by charging excessive spreads on NASDAQ stocks. The effect: slightly higher prices for consumers when they buy stocks, and slightly lower prices when they sell. NASDAQ denies any price fixing, maintaining that the spread is determined by the forces of supply and demand for each stock. Pending the outcome of the suits and the Justice Department probe, you might consider seeking quotes from several dealers when buying or selling NASDAQ stocks...
...problem with moral lectures by politicians is not just the clang effect. Once politicians cross the threshold and begin to preach, it becomes natural for the flock to demand of the preachers an accounting of their private lives, if only to see how the pulpit pounders live up to their own proclaimed standards. And that in turn legitimates our current obsession with what is euphemistically called character but is really a prurient interest in the private lives -- actually, the private vices -- of our leaders. Campaigns turn into spectacles of dueling peccadilloes and mutual muckraking. The end result of this orgy...
Over the past few decades, the nation's poultry producers have capitalized on an epic change in America's eating habits. As cholesterol fears have mounted, the demand for chicken instead of beef has zoomed. Since 1940, the number of chickens slaughtered annually in the U.S. has grown from 143 million to more than 7 billion. By the mid 1970s, this trend posed a crisis for the poultry industry. Unless the industry was allowed unrestricted automation, supply could never meet demand. Under the regulations at that time, chickens moved slowly through the slaughtering process, and those birds noticeably contaminated with...
...hands of his party's left wing next year. Here's how that thinking goes: Clinton will have to ask Republicans and business interests for help with the trade treaty after the election, but that courtship will leave his partners on the left feeling jilted, and they will demand favors of their own. Their IOUs will make it more difficult for Clinton to govern from the center next year, when the 104th Congress turns more moderate. As Wayne Berman, who helped manage trade issues in the Bush Administration, put it, "The Republicans are going to pass the GATT, but they...
...sales increase was particularly impressive, since it was the biggest monthly gain since February of 1987. Moreover, the inventory-to-sales ratio, which combines the two figures, dropped to an all-time low, meaning that factories will have to pick up production even more to keep pace with booming demand. In recent weeks, good news like that has sometimes sent the market reeling, as investors register their fear of renewed inflation. But with two reports last week suggesting that inflation remains under control, the stocks that benefited today were those that normally do well in an expanding economy -- such...