Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JERUSALEM: Why is Yasser Arafat extending an olive branch to Islamic militants by meeting them today and tomorrow, while Israel continues to demand a crackdown for a July suicide bombing...
...sorely needs a big win to maintain his political advantage over archrival James Hoffa Jr., son of the notorious Teamster boss who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1975. Carey edged Hoffa in the race for the presidency last fall, but Hoffa has jumped on the fund-raising charges to demand a new election. "If Carey loses the strike or is perceived to have lost, his position vis-a-vis Hoffa is markedly weakened," says Marvin Kosters, a labor expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington...
...leading producer of the high-powered computers that feed the Net, has long been looking for a way to spur demand in cyberspace for its network pro- gramming language, Java. In the Menlo Park, Calif.-based Diba, Sun found an affordable (estimated purchase price: $30 million to $50 million), scrappy partner with the know-how to direct the consumer push. Though Diba's enabling software for smart phones and televisions has received mixed reviews, it's building Internet-browsing TVs for Samsung in Korea. The Sun deal is "a way of playing catch-up," says Dataquest principal analyst Allen Weiner...
...does to ruin one. Consider the present state of the orange roughy on New Zealand's Challenger Plateau. Discovered in 1979, this deep-water fishing hole took off in the 1980s when the mild-tasting, white-fleshed fish became popular with U.S. chefs. Happy to stoke the surging demand, fishermen are believed to have reduced the biomass of orange roughy as much as 80% before officials stepped in. Now, says Yale University ichthyologist Jon Moore, it may take centuries before the fishery rebounds. As scientists have belatedly learned, orange roughy grow extremely slowly, live 100 years or more and take...
...apart from the morality, there is the practical political effect. The message it sends the Palestinians is clear: no matter how great the outrage they perpetrate, the world will demand no price. In fact, pressure will be exerted on Israel--pressure to return to the table and continue its concessions--even before it has buried its dead...