Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undercover men also had let their hair and beards grow long and scraggly. They dressed shabbily and took on menial jobs-yard work, house painting, truck loading-that did not demand Social Security cards, driver's licenses or other forms of identification that could have been traced by the militants' friends...
John Loughlin, assistant superintendent of schools in Portsmouth, N.H., is worried, as are most other U.S. education officials, about the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's Forms 101 and 102. They demand that he list the number of black, Hispanic, female and handicapped pupils in each class in the city's schools. Loughlin notes that the federal rules require gathering "a lot of data that we don't keep and that is illegal for us to find out." How does Loughlin cope? "Some of the answers we just make up," he confesses...
...economic arguments for a tax cut too. Current income tax rates, which begin at 34% for individuals with taxable income in excess of $1,796 a year and escalate to 83% on income over $38,000 annually, stifle incentive and initiative. A tax cut also would increase consumer demand, in theory prompting industry to increase production and hire more workers...
...holds some inflationary dangers of its own. Britain has the lowest productivity and most antiquated industrial plant and equipment of any major European state. A tax cut could well make British customers demand more goods and services than the country can produce, leading to a rash of domestic price increases and sucking in imports at an inflationary clip...
...investment capital. Benn's scheme is opposed by Labor moderates and the Confederation of British Industry; both see it as promoting further government intrusion in private industry. Yet some way must be found to channel oil revenues toward the modernization of industry if Britain is to meet consumer demand and remain competitive in world markets...