Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lower key than the one played before. "Angel Dust" includes mellow backup vocals, giving the song a light, hallucinatory effect. All of their productions attempt to incorporate the setting into music, a testimony to the genius of their creators. The result is not a sermon or a demand but a subtle yet powerful understatement of what's going down...
...father figure." Last week Robin Oswald boarded TWA Flight 541 in St. Louis, then announced that she was carrying three sticks of dynamite and took over the airliner. With 87 passengers aboard, she ordered the pilot to fly to Marion. There the authorities began delicately negotiating her demand for Trapnell's release, and after ten hours the girl surrendered. Garrett Trapnell is still serving his life sentence...
...sells for a bit less than it did ten years ago. Reason: institutional and pension fund managers hold about as many IBM shares as they care to, since they want to maintain balanced portfolios, and the stock has been too expensive for all but the richest individual investors; so demand for the shares has declined. Politically, the more widely a company's stock is held, the more clout it has; AT&T's nearly 3 million shareholders, for example, constitute a powerful lobby. IBM could use support from more than the 579,384 shareholders...
...Paying off the debt now enhances the Treasury's ability to borrow later, when Social Security benefit payments will exceed incoming payroll tax revenues. A smaller national debt also reduces overall demand for credit, pushing down interest rates. This in turn should stimulate economic growth and create jobs, producing more payroll tax revenue to keep Social Security healthy. Devoting the savings in interest payments to Social Security should extend the program's solvency from...
...voters were apathetic; no, they were outraged at taxes and mobilized to demand reform. People had given up on the capacities of government; no, citizens everywhere were forming diligent factions and forcing government's hand on one issue and another. The individual had learned he could not change any thing; no, so many individuals had learned they could shake things up in court that there was a litigation crisis...