Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that it might otherwise have managed, unemployment's rising a bit rather than sinking to still further lows, and a distinct slowdown in corporate profits--especially among companies that had been exporting $300 billion or more a year to the Asian region. On the other hand, sagging demand from Asia is contributing to a worldwide deflation (a term rarely heard since the 1930s) in commodity prices, especially oil. And that is helping to douse what little inflationary fire may be left in the U.S. economy...
...college teacher, I've long held that no person in power should demand sexual favors in return for a high grade or promotion. Nor should subordinates sexually involved with teachers or managers enjoy an unfair advantage over their peers. Those principles are a genuine contribution to feminist history...
...Parker greatly admire. BASEketball is shooting now, and Zucker says of his stars, "They're up all hours. They work all day on this movie, then they go and write South Park. They have people on the set constantly coming up to them with plotlines and other things that demand their direction...
...paid to pontificate on television--the group we refer to at our house as the Sabbath Gasbags--confidently said that Clinton would be out of office in a few days, that public outrage was particularly strong because baby boomers had intern-age daughters and that the American people would demand that President Clinton come forward immediately with a full explanation of the relationship...
...Overproduction and falling demand caused by the Asian economic crisis and the unusually mild winter has sent oil prices plummeting, while cheating has bedeviled OPEC?s attempts to reverse the trend by cutting production. ?Venezuela has been notorious for cheating,? says Baumohl. ?Although in the new agreement they?re going to cut back production by 200,000 barrels a day, they were, in fact, producing 700,000 barrels more than their OPEC quota allowed,? says Baumohl...