Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy, as it took shape this year, is certainly sober. In his 1985 annual report, President Bok issued a modest, moderate assessment of the effect of computers on education, and administrators, department heads and faculty members have relied on the "bottom-top" approach to computerization, only expanding upon demand, not as a policy...
...when the duck is Daffy and the hunter is the dully malevolent Elmer Fudd. In Rabbit Seasoning (1952), Daffy and Bugs are out to convince Elmer that the other is the legally blastable species. In the midst of an argument, Daffy encounters some pronoun trouble and tells Elmer, "I demand that you shoot me now!" Daffy turns to Bugs, sticks his tongue out in "nyah" fashion and promptly gets both barrels of Elmer's shotgun. When the smoke clears, Daffy's beak is arranged around his left ear, with the tongue still protruding. Daffy deftly pushes the tongue back into...
...obscenity and slapped a 14-day detention order on him. When the Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and one of the country's most outspoken opponents of apartheid, vowed that he would go through with the plan to stage a peaceful demonstration to demand the release of Black Politician Nelson Mandela, he was arrested under a law that permits the authorities to hold him indefinitely. Mandela, a principal leader of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), has been in prison for more than 20 years. In a further crackdown, the government outlawed the country...
...things were already, they will probably get worse this week if, as expected, tens of thousands of black miners go on strike. In recent negotiations, some of the mining companies have come close to agreeing to the black union's demand for an across-the-board 22% wage increase, while others have not. At week's end a strike was due to begin Sunday night at five gold mines and two coal mines employing a total of 60,000 black miners. In the past such walkouts have led to the firing of large numbers of striking workers...
Elsewhere, the value of marriage may be incalculable, but in the United Arab Emirates, men feel that it is not worth $50,000. Women often demand sums of that size in the Emirates, where dowries are supplied by grooms rather than by brides. Young women in this Persian Gulf federation of sheikdoms view the dowry as an insurance policy. Because Islamic law allows men to take up to four wives and obtain divorces easily, brides believe they risk losing their husbands' affection...