Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University officials said in early October that they were selling Harvard's $35.4 million in Exxon stock and bonds because of a South African law that requires companies within the nation's borders to sell oil on demand to government agencies, including the police forces...
Peking faces a particularly dangerous dilemma. The more "democracy" it allows the students, the more they will continue to demand. But the more their "freedom" is abridged, the more inevitable will further protests become. Unless Deng and his colleagues play their hand with exquisite skill, the result could be just the kind of harsh crackdown they desperately fear and seek to avoid...
...role of the people. Those who think that we can restructure in a month or two are naive! This has taken shape over years and will demand massive efforts and titanic labors. If we don't involve the people, nothing will come of it. All our plans depend on influencing the people...
...have often augured or advanced social and political change in China, ushering in new eras or helping set the country's political agenda. Indeed, the recent outpouring of unrest shares familiar themes with the outcries of earlier student generations: a fervent call for renewed national purpose and a noisy demand for domestic reform...
...effort to support the contras; he was also a hot speaker on the private contra fund-raising circuit. The National Security Council aide began briefing private groups on Central America in 1983 at weekly sessions organized by the White House Office of Public Liaison, and he was soon in demand among conservative groups nationwide. His remarks in Nashville, quoted from a tape obtained by the Washington Post, were to the Council for National Policy, a group of about 500 influential conservatives including Colorado Brewer Joseph Coors, Texas Millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt and the Rev. Jerry Falwell. "Ollie let you know...