Word: demanding
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...money, no treatment. It's inhumane, but it doesn't strain the system. One unpleasant reality of health care coverage is that, regardless of which plan eventually goes into operation, simply adding the approximately 33 million Americans currently uncovered to the rolls of the insured will vastly increase the demand for health services...
Supporters say the program reduces demand forelectricity, thereby reducing fuel consumptionfrom power plants and cutting down on pollution...
When whole populations literally become saturated with the most addictive narcotics known to humanity, it is beyond nonsense to argue issues of individual responsibility as a way of curbing demand. The British understood this perfectly when they went to war with China to for opium addiction upon the Asiatic masses as a means of repatriating much of the empire's national treasure, then being spent on oriental silk, tea and gold...
...citizens had not been heeded. In Israel reaction to the neo-Nazi violence was even stronger. Calls for economic and tourist boycotts were widely voiced, and a Knesset delegation canceled a trip to Germany in protest. Said Foreign Minister Shimon Peres: "We turn to ((Germany)) with a demand to implement existing laws, pass new ones and outlaw all those who threaten the right to life of any human being...
...back to their boards to seek new incentives designed to get around the higher taxes. Says compensation specialist Graef Crystal: "What these tax policies will prove, if enacted, is that the answers to excessive corporate compensation lie outside Washington. It will not be until the shareholders begin to demand accountability that executive pay will come into line with reality...