Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increases in federal funding have not gone unchallenged. Familiar arguments about the cultural elitism of public television have been dredged up. "When working-class Americans are being pitched off Amtrak passenger trains to save a few bucks," notes former White House speechwriter Pat Buchanan, "it approaches the obscene to demand that taxpayers triple their subsidy to this playpen of the penthouse proletariat." Never one for subtlety, James J. Kilpatrick says he "sees no reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left who would love...
Prieto said, "The committee has excellent ideas to improve conditions in the student environment, and we hope the survey will provide evidence that the student demand for those ideas is strong...
...disparate as factory operating rates and farm income slipped a bit in January. Most important, housing starts plunged 20% from December to January, and a further decline was signaled by the fact that building permits dropped 18%. A housing slump could lead the whole economy into decline, because the demand for so many other products-building materials, furniture, rugs, cars-bounces up and down along with sales of houses. Furthermore, millions of American families have socked large sums into their houses, and if they see that the market is softening and housing prices leveling, they will tend to pull back...
...present extremely strong hunger for consumer, mortgage and corporate credit will also ease, causing interest rates to fall. The prime rate on loans to big companies should move down from a peak of 12½% this spring to 9½% a year from now. The general lessening of demand should make a dent in inflation. TIME'S economists expect consumer prices, which surged 9% last year, to go up 8.3% this year and 6.8% in 1980. That certainly would not amount to victory over inflation, but at least the trend would be favorable...
...essentially a musical revue of women's experiences, rather than rounded characters. And the strength of the production lies in the cast's ability to infuse these ideal types with life as they march through vignette after vignette. The show stumbles most, though never managing to fall, when songs demand fully developed characters to lend credibility to the very personal experiences the lyrics describe...