Word: needing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other council news, the body voted unanimously to establish a weekly newsletter to inform students of its activities. During this month's council campaigns, many candidates stressed the need for the council to communicate more effectively with the student body...
...really letting the reformers down. But a destabilized Eastern Europe carries dangers for the West as well as for us. What we need is an influx of working capital and the economic freedom of movement that would allow Hungary to participate in the marketplaces of the European Community...
...political party is willing to confront, a kind of neurosis of accepted limits has taken hold from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other. Whatever the situation -- the unprecedented opportunity to promote democracy in Eastern Europe, the spreading plague of drugs, the plight of the underclass, the urgent need for educational reform -- the typical response from Washington consists of encouraging words and token funds. Yet voters, especially the better-organized ones, continue to demand -- and often receive -- more benefits and services while rejecting higher taxes...
...inability to define and debate America's emerging problems." Last week's 190-point stock market tumble was the immediate result of economic developments, namely UAL's failure to obtain financing for its leveraged buyout. But Washington's glaring inability to control spending hardly inspires the confidence that markets need...
...doubts about the future. Moreover, signs of strain are beginning to show at the state and local levels. State officials generally find their constituents as opposed to new local taxes as they are to the federal kind, except, in several states, when a tax is earmarked for a specific need: schools, say, or roads...