Word: demanding
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...adult waking hours at work, and we would like to enjoy the experience. Like security or shelter this drive is a passive concern, occupied chiefly with controlling our environment and the external world. We want to make life as pleasant as possible. At the most basic level we demand that the working experience meet the minimal conditions of human existence--namely that it not endanger anyone mentally or physically...
...serve six warrants issued over Sunday's kidnapping of community residents Joe and Margaret Ann Rowe. McLaren was reportedly "very cooperative" in telephone negotiations with state agents and the FBI, talking about everything from the weather to political philosophy. Later, he issued a terse fax rejecting any demand for surrender. The faction is "only interested in getting the foreign agents off of Texas soil," the statement read. An estimated 13 members of McLaren's group are believed to be entrenched throughout the 6,000-acre community. Even with law enforcement officials surrounding the trailer that he says serves...
...send Sharansky's immigrants' party and the centrist Third Way Party heading for the door. With 11 seats between them, their departure would topple the government, which has a majority of six. "If a harsh report is submitted," says Third Way Knesset member Yehuda Harel, "our tendency is to demand new elections...
...industry has the wherewithal to raise $300 billion, the highest figure yet floated, payable over 25 years, to compensate plaintiffs for smoking-related ailments. Together, market leader Philip Morris and No. 2 Reynolds command a 72% share of the $45 billion U.S. tobacco industry. Cynics noted that demand for cigarettes is inelastic--the companies would just force nicotine junkies to cough up an additional 25 cents a pack, which now averages $1.80. The industry would also scrap its outdoor advertising and remove human and human-like figures from remaining ads, thereby laying to rest the images of the Marlboro...
...mountains 175 miles southeast of El Paso along with some 150 residents. Warrants are being drafted for at least three members who started the standoff on Sunday when they allegedly took Joe and Margaret Ann Rowe hostage. The couple was freed early Monday after police met the group's demand to release Robert Jonathan Scheidt, their security chief who had been jailed on a weapons charge. McLaren is negotiating with state and federal officials from his trailer, which he calls the "embassy" of the Republic. He is seeking the release of another member, Jo Ann Canady Turner, and demands that...