And the usual answer to a demand-side slump, reducing interest rates, hasn't worked: the Bank of Japan has cut the equivalent of the Fed funds rate all the way to zero, and yet the economy remains depressed.
This collection and categorisation of weak signals and predictions in order to form stronger networks and a global learning community of practising Futures researchers is an answer to an increasing demand for a platform where Futures researchers can reflect the results and products of their own work together [42].
Inspirational Grounds is the answer to an increasing demand.
The answer to a lack of global demand is simple, he insisted: "Give the world a pay rise".
But one, with tiny, intense eyes beneath a beetling brow, stopped me dead, like a Sphinx demanding the answer to a fatal riddle.
The winged sphinx of Boeotian Thebes, the most famous in legend, was said to have terrorized the people by demanding the answer to a riddle taught her by the Muses—What is it that has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?—and devouring a man each time the riddle was answered incorrectly.
Demanding an answer to a pretty personal question before a coffee date is one thing.
The phone would ring, and you'd answer to an unmistakable rasping voice demanding that you deliver the goods on whatever was in your notebook: "Yeah, what's doing?" he would bark.
Thus, an active screening as performed in the current study seems to be an answer to the demand for a reliable risk assessment in such a low SES group.
This declaration was apparently an answer to the "demand" of John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, in an interview last night that the Administration support the strike by every legal means.
Davidson's principal theatrical genre was that of the "drawing-room entertainer"; Cullen describes this kind of performance as "[a]n answer to the demand of a rising middle class which was neither cultured nor resourceful, but which wanted desperately to be diverted".
