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Word: demand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thousands gathered for a rally yesterday in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, to press the republic's parliament to renew a demand to annex the disputed region, a mountainous enclave in Azerbaijan called Nagorno-Karabakh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tanks, Troops Sent to Armenian Capital | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

...school committee is offering the teachers a 3 percent raise for this year and 4 percent next year, said the school department's director of public information, Albert H. Giroux. But he said the teachers demand an 8 percent raise for this year and subsequent 9-1/2 percent and 10 percent raises for the following...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: City Teachers Start Picketing Schools | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

Last year those items would have been in great demand. The player who didn't sit out with an injury was a rarity...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: The Soccer Notebook | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

...rivalry. One of those conflicts now threatens to erupt into violence. Angry Serbs are staging increasingly militant demonstrations against their countrymen in Kosovo who are ethnic Albanians. The biggest demonstration so far took place Sept. 3, as 70,000 protesters gathered in the town of Smederevo, near Belgrade, to demand action by the central government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: The Serbs In Revolt | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Last week the Serbian Communist Party organization and its popular boss, Slobodan Milosevic, defied a government demand that the protests be stopped. Late in the week the government in Belgrade attempted to defuse the increasingly tense standoff by agreeing to send a Serbian police unit into a Kosovo village to help federal authorities protect the local Serbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: The Serbs In Revolt | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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