Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business without court permission. Says Crames: "Texaco is going to have to live in a goldfish bowl." As a member of Texaco's soon-to-be-formed unsecured-creditor committee, Pennzoil will have access to some of Texaco's sensitive documents and will be in a position to demand many more. Says Chairman Liedtke: "We want to make sure their money is spent wisely. We want to know everything." Texaco executives have said they will refuse to accede to paper chases outside the requirements of bankruptcy law. Ripostes Texaco Bankruptcy Counsel Harvey Miller: "Creditor committees don't run businesses...
...Prime Minister's supporters argue that the tax-reform bill, along with its unpopular sales levy, must be passed to stimulate domestic economic growth. The plan would reduce income taxes to encourage consumer spending, creating a greater demand for imports. The sales tax, they contend, would make up for revenue lost with the cuts. An increase in U.S. exports to Japan would then take the heat out of the trade war and help stabilize the soaring yen, which has made Japanese goods more expensive abroad. Still, despite an L.D.P. majority in parliament, both the tax and budget proposals face...
...Soviets would be left with swarms of short-range missiles that for the most part are aimed at only one NATO country: West Germany. Thus the Germans fear that they will become more than ever the special, or even sole, Soviet target. West Germans suggest two ideas: 1) demand that the Soviets destroy ^ many of their under-300-mile-range missiles as well as longer-range types; 2) condition a missile deal on a Soviet commitment to reduce conventional forces in Europe. Says Volker Ruhe, a Bundestag expert on defense policy and adviser to Kohl: "Things are too much concentrated...
...over European slaves. But instead of letting this not-so-clever premise unfold with some dramatic grace or subtlety, Lee has a narrator explain the wider historical circumstances in deadening detail. Like the rest of the play, this opening lacks the imagination and care that its themes suggest and demand...
...coffee and some fries. Now it only serves the morning crowd and closes down after the lunch-time crowd has left. One regular customer attributed the diner's demise to the closing of local factories and the changing demographics of the neighborhood; with fewer workers and more professionals, the demand for a local center dwindled. During those hours when it is still open, however, the coffee flows, the fries sizzle, and a counter space is still hard to find. Although a number of diners have closed and others have restricted their hours, these images from a diner in Watertown...