Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like any other, this reform would entail some complications. School curricula would have to be condensed, which would demand a major overhaul of our educational system. An even more serious problem would arise as young adults entered the workforce earlier, causing a large rise in unemployment...
...Film Historian Lewis Jacobs saluted Walt Disney as the "virtuoso of the film medium." Twenty years later, this Hollywood Paderewski was playing mostly Muzak. His studio's artistic growth had been stunted, by both the | demand for new product in two mediums and the creeping conservatism that afflicts almost any burgeoning corporation. Yet Disney was always a visionary entrepreneur; he still had magic to do. In the 1950s Disney made three business decisions that would sustain his company until the Eisner years. Decades later, they would profoundly affect the movie business...
...Hormuz, it began a tortured 3,200-mile journey that took it from Mashhad in northeastern Iran to Larnaca, Cyprus, and finally to Algiers. Deadlines came and went as the skyjackers, having already killed two hostages, threatened the lives of the rest if Kuwait did not meet their demand to free 17 terrorists jailed there since 1983 for bombings of the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. Three of the 17 are under sentence of death; the others are serving terms of from two years to life. The hijackers still held about 30 of the 112 people originally aboard, three...
Kuwait had refused throughout the ordeal to bow to the gunmen's demand that 17 pro-Iranian extremists imprisoned in Kuwait be released...
...talks resumed in Geneva six weeks ago, Moscow turned up the heat, * offering a withdrawal within just nine months. Zia tried to put on the brakes by issuing a demand: there could be no agreement without the establishment of an interim government in Kabul that included representatives of the resistance groups. Under pressure from the U.S. Congress to defend the mujahedin's interests, the U.S. raised the stakes even further by insisting that Moscow stop all military aid to Najibullah after the pullout. Moscow rejected both points, and Pakistan subsequently backed off from its interim-regime demand when it became...