Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...area codes were added because the Boston area was running out of numbers in its current ones, due to an increasing demand for pagers, cellular phones, dial-up Internet connections and fax lines...
Bell Atlantic also points to new local telephone companies competing in the Boston area as a cause of the increasing demand...
...wrong, the immunity would still protect her from being prosecuted for any past crimes, but if Starr could prove that she lied in front of the grand jury, the immunity would not protect her from perjury charges for that testimony. There is no valid reason, therefore, for Starr to demand a proffer which incriminates the President before he grants Lewinsky immunity. The only reason for this hardball tactic is to influence the content of what she will...
...creative ways. Livent has set aside a block of VIP seats for each performance of Ragtime; at $125 a pop, high rollers get access to such amenities as a private lounge, free drinks and bathrooms that don't have lines snaking into the orchestra pit. To satisfy the overwhelming demand for Lion King seats, Disney chairman Michael Eisner has suggested starting a second company in the same theater to give extra matinee performances on weekends and nights when the theater is now dark...
...carry such theoretical weaponry. Senior Pentagon officers, who hope Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba this week will help ease tensions, privately favor normalizing relations with Havana. They fear that the report will only throw red meat to congressional and Cuban-American hard-liners, who will demand that sanctions be tightened and U.S forces be returned to Florida...