Word: demands
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Chasing after these scarce infants is harder than ever, as supply flattens and demand soars. Abortion is one reason: half of all unwanted pregnancies are now terminated. Teenage mothers intent on keeping their children are another. In some states a pregnant 15-year-old quickly learns that with a baby she can be eligible for Medicaid, food stamps and other welfare payments that total as much as $8,000 a year. If she decides on adoption, she may get nothing but the pain of loss and the ridicule of her peers. "Adoption is really unpopular in the schools," says Independent...
...newspaper glut also stems from the lack ofbusinesses and retailers stocking recycled paperproducts, Wall said. "If more institutions likeHarvard would carry the paper, there would notonly be no glut, there would be a demand for [oldnewspapers]," he said...
Paul Donovan, Kennedy's press secretary, saidthat the amendment was part of an effort to takethe "demand approach" to fighting the drugproblem...
...demand approach deals with getting to theroot of the problem through prevention, treatmentand education," said Donovan. He said attackingdemand is less popular than attempting to cutsupply, which tries to stop drugs from enteringthe country...
Councillors Francis H. Duehay and Alice K. Wolf, who are seeking re-election, also said Cambridge must demand the $8 million which they say the state owes the Cambridge Hospital...