Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the confusion of passing trucks and landing airplanes, my services as a Russian interpreter were in great demand, stretching my technical vocabulary to the limit. I was asked to come quickly and sort out a bizarre accident on the airfield. The wing tip of a passing Ilyushin 76 cargo plane had somehow clipped the tail of a parked Air Europe Boeing 757. Both aircraft were stuck in place. I tried to explain to an ever changing group of airport workers that the British pilot needed a small tow truck and strong steel cables to move his plane forward...
...auspices of the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: to establish guidelines for furthering free trade. Instead, last week's GATT meetings, involving delegates from 103 nations, were dominated by an inconclusive and bitter row between the U.S. and the European Community. The chief issue was an American demand that all nations agree to the total elimination of subsidies to farmers, which the U.S. believes distort international trade...
Ebullience does not mean blindness. Asimov is alarmed by overpopulation, with its insatiable demand for natural resources. He is not sanguine about the medical establishment's inability to find a cure for AIDS: "It may just burn itself out the way the bubonic plague did in the London of 1665. But this tragic disease moves much more slowly. It might take a century to disappear." And wars and weapons continually remind him about the fragility of Spaceship Earth. But in the Asimovian view, that fragility is an echo of his personal history. He was felled by a heart attack...
...experts warned against drawing any firm conclusions from the data because of the difficulties that arise in comparing supply and demand at different times in different places...
...concurrence -- as unlikely a prospect as the actual eclipsing of Jackson himself. The Governor of New York champions another idea for dealing with Jackson. "We have to start treating Jesse like everyone else," says Mario Cuomo. "No more condescension. No more double standards. Give him the dignity he demands -- and all the scrutiny we demand of others. Only then can white Democrats legitimately compete for black voters in the primaries and still have their heavy participation in the general election, without which we lose. Only then are you credible when you say, 'We white officeholders are the ones...