Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chain mail is generally abhorred by system administrators all over. The messages usually demand that once read, they be passed to at least 10 people or else the reader will suffer bad luck. While it appears that most people disregard these silly threats, a new form of chain mail is snaking its way across the Internet, and it is more troublesome because it strikes a chord of either fear or sympathy in the hearts of its readers...
...there. American management is pushing the pilots to accept binding arbitration, but that process could take two years and the union calls it a delay tactic. Working now on a contract negotiated when American was in poor financial shape, the pilots haven't had a raise since 1993, and demand an 11-percent raise over four years. Crandall, fearing another downturn in the cyclical airline business, feels that giving too much now may cost the airline dearly later. But a strike could cost more -- the airline stands to lose more in the first week than it stands to gain...
...Milosevic's recent concessions, protesters in Belgrade are vowing to press on. "It's only the first round," opposition leader Vesna Pesic told demonstrators who returned to the streets for a 79th straight day of protests. "We have to change the entire system, step by step, until liberty. We demand economic reform, we demand freedom, we want to live in dignity." Milosevic's bill ceding the 14 election victories to the opposition has been submitted to parliament. And that, clearly, is where those in power would prefer for the matter to be addressed. "Nothing can be solved in the streets...
...free the 72 remaining hostages had "advanced positively." President Alberto Fujimori had welcomed the meeting, saying that it "will help us define the eventual sequence of talks." But Fujimori, saying his "cards are on the table," has showed no sign of budging on the one seemingly non-negotiable demand of rebel leader Nestor Cerpa: the release of his Tupac Amaru comrades from Peruvian jails...
...short preparation time between the semesters and the smaller number of books used in second-semester classes can also lower wholesale prices and demand, Powell said...