Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such advantages for the few have stirred outrage among the many. Leaders from Mao Tse-tung to Deng Xiaoping have decried nepotism and launched campaigns to end it. When student protesters called for democratic reforms last winter, they made equal opportunity a key demand. Scandalized party elders complain that in recent years some taizi pai members have committed crimes, including murder, and then used their influence to escape punishment. Last spring veteran Army Marshal Nie Rongzhen warned in a widely discussed public letter of "public indignation" over these unfair practices. "Those who were unsuitably promoted should be either demoted...
...Managua and Washington, however, exchanged sharp words after U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett encountered anti-U.S. protesters while on a visit to the Nicaraguan capital. In El Salvador a meeting between President Jose Napoleon Duarte and the country's leftist guerrillas failed to occur, aborted by Duarte's demand that the rebels first lay down their arms. Yet all hope was not lost. Leaders of the guerrilla coalition met with Arias for the second time in two weeks. "We've made progress toward a dialogue," said Guillermo Ungo, one of the rebels' political leaders, after the session. "I hope...
...morning cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. His other major fans were advertising executives. Attracted by his rapport with children, Jell-O hired Cosby in 1974 for a series of commercials in which he talked and mugged with youngsters eating Jell-O pudding. He was soon in demand for other TV spots, hawking products for Ford, Texas Instruments and Coca-Cola, among others. His latest client, E.F. Hutton, reportedly paid him more than $5 million for a long-term deal. "The advertising business was looking for universality that shatters the color image," says Fred Danzig, editor of Advertising...
Bargainers for the United Auto Workers (UAW) lowered their demand for a 16 percent increase in the total wage pool to 13 percent, but Cornell administrators are willing to give only an 8 percent increase, said David I. Stewart, assistant to the vice president for university relations...
...that pitted the University against its 41 uniformed patrolmen. An agreement reached shortly before classes began gives the patrolmen 5 percent annual increases in pay and benefits for the next 46 months. But the patrolmen still don't have one weekend off in each four, which was their central demand...