Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority on the Council to pass, but a landowner of 20 percent or more of the area may object to the plan and require that it receive seven votes to pass. Harvard owns more than 20 percent of the land in the Square and will exercise its right to demand a 7-2 vote for passage, said Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline O'Neill...
...young certainly do. Prosperity next door has become a magnet for young Hunanese, though they may still lack the skills to benefit quickly. Those who remain behind contend that the lure of Guangdong saps Hunan of its best and brightest. In Changsha, the capital of Hunan, one government functionary demands a radical solution. "We should not merely ask for higher prices for our rice and vegetables," he says. "We should demand 40% of Guangdong's foreign-exchange earnings. Otherwise we would really become its colony." Some Hunanese have gone so far as blockading the border to prevent the outflow...
...company, selling its catalog operation and a troubled discount division. He transformed many of the remaining stores, filling them with attractive specialty departments. When Ward returned to profitability, achieving record earnings last year of $130 million, Mobil moved to get out of the retailing business while it could demand a good price. The buyer: none other than Bernard Brennan, who headed an investor group that agreed last month to pay $3.8 billion to take the company private...
...Ultimately," he continues, "the Chinese have to realize that Tibet is a separate country. If Tibet was always truly a part of China, then, whether Tibetans liked it or not, they would have to live with it. But that's not the case. So we have every right to demand our rights...
When is an arms cutoff not an arms cutoff? That was the riddle confronting Washington last week as it pondered what could be the final obstacle in talks on a Soviet pullout from Afghanistan. The trouble stems from a U.S. demand that Moscow end all military aid to the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul once Washington stops sending weapons to the mujahedin. Moscow refused to go along, and Washington offered a compromise: the U.S. will allow the Soviets to keep supplying Kabul if Moscow allows Washington to continue arming the rebels...