Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accordance with the new contract, the clerical workers will not make such givebacks. However, they abandoned their original demand for a 16 percent annual salary increase for each of the next three years, and settled for increases of six, five, and five percent over that time. They also won improved health benefits...
...shrewd Washington Post column, Novelist Erica Jong (Fear of Flying), formerly a high priestess of sexual abandon, put the dilemma succinctly: "It's hard enough to find attractive single men without having to quiz them on their history of bisexuality and drug use, demand blood-test results and thrust condoms into their hands. Wouldn't it be easier to give up sex altogether and join some religious order?" With a little emendation the same plaint can be made by men. "You think twice," observes a 28-year-old male / patron of Lucy's, a crowded singles bar on Manhattan...
Said Salidor: "John is going to be in high demand very quickly. I only hope we'll be able to afford...
...will be assured a full six-year term and her political opposition will be effectively neutralized until 1992. "The plebiscite is the last chance for the Marcos loyalists," says a senior Western diplomat in Manila. If Aquino fails to secure at least 65% of the vote, the opposition may demand a snap presidential election. Aquino's former Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, has actively campaigned for a no vote. While there was no evidence linking Enrile to the aborted coup, neither was there any doubt that he intended to exploit Aquino's troubles. Warned Enrile last week: "There...
...assistance, "this would be a less caring and compassionate world," says Representative Stephen Solarz of New York, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "These agencies embody the consciences of the countries that they come from." Yet at a time when government budgets everywhere are strained, political leaders demand more than ever that foreign aid be wisely given and effectively used...