Word: demanding
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...foreign markets. Given the sizable U.S. trade deficits of the 1980s, that sinking feeling was understandable. In fact, the gap this year may be the worst since 1988, an estimated $117 billion, up from last year's $84.3 billion. The main cause is the global recession, which slows demand for U.S. exports, while America's gathering recovery has boosted the demand for imports...
Since exports have accounted for 55% of U.S. economic growth since 1987, tariff reductions of the kind ensured by NAFTA are certain to make American industry even more trade-oriented. Bill Clinton's effort to promote freer trade along the Pacific Rim also comes at a time when demand for consumer items -- everything from sports equipment to kitchen appliances -- is rising in Asian nations that have long given priority to savings over spending. "With Asia growing through the creation of domestic demand, we can jump in," says Lawrence Chimerine of the Economic Strategy Institute, a think tank in Washington...
...trends have created an "industrial reserve army" -- to borrow a term from Karl Marx -- so large that a quite extraordinary and prolonged surge in output would be required to put all its members to full- time, well-paid work. Two indications of the yawning chasm between job supply and demand, in Detroit alone: in October, the Detroit Post Office handed out 20,000 applications for such jobs as clerk, sorter and letter carrier, even though it announced it would have at most a few hundred openings and that some of them would not be filled for three to five years...
When the Crimson and Elis met on Soldiers'Field, the game promised to be one of the mosthyped ever. The demand for tickets was so greatthat Harvard did not provide passes for allHarvard alumni who graduated after...
...claims that groups like RAZA do not fulfill their purpose since they demand political conformity of their members. "The problem becomes that when we enter politics there's a tendency to divide the world into those that are in favor of us and those who are against us." Navarrette writes somewhat sulkily of his fall from grace in RAZA: "I was no longer us; I was finally part of them...