Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authorities have discovered that the same terrorist gangs that turned Belfast into a sectarian battleground have siphoned off millions of dollars from the reconstruction to finance their continuing war. As money for new construction pours into Belfast, paramilitary forces on both sides demand a cut of the profits. This Ulster Mafia exacts its levies from local businesses, and if people do not pay up, a bomb or a shot in the night may follow...
...organizers of the protest originally hadcalled on the IOP to rescind its invitation toCarr, but they withdrew that demand after meetingwith student and staff representatives responsiblefor the study groups, said Mark A. Merante '88,the president of Perspective, Harvard's liberalmonthly journal...
LAST SATURDAY'S forum in Boston was sponsored by the Democratic Club and the Radcliffe Union of Students. An agglomeration of about 50 activists showed up ready to demand University glasnost. The strategy of pursuing "influence" rather than a specific action was devised after divestment activists found themselves banging their heads against walls trying to penetrate the Corporation. So they decided to talk to corporation members themselves and "convince" them to divest...
...week tour of naval bases in Hawaii, the Philippines and Japan, the investigators concluded that in both services "the encouragement of a macho-male image contributes to behavior that is at best inappropriate and at worst morally repugnant." Both men and women in the Navy and Marines sometimes demand sexual favors from lower-ranking servicewomen, the investigators found...
...struggling GM probably cannot. Bieber, who was released from the hospital late in the week, will demand from GM a deal similar to the Ford package in negotiations that begin this week. GM's contract with the U.A.W. also expired last week, but the union shrewdly decided to settle first with cash-rich Ford...