Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When they rise to speak up for themselves, they tend to overlook the majority of the Chinese, who are leading a life completely different from their own: those who are out there struggling in the fields to make ends meet and to whom it never occurs that they should demand anything more than a steady source of the next meal...
...very reason for this bad luck lies in the lack of wide support in society. Historian Leonard Kreiger notes that "the protagonists of individual liberty are primarily intellectuals." In such a big and poor country as China where the educated class comprises only a minority, what the intellectuals demand seems far ahead of what should come first for the majority--the 800,000,000 peasants who ask nothing more than the rights to have food, clothes, and shelter. Without a practical promise to win over their support, any attempts aimed at fundamental social changes by those intellectuals will...
...meet increased student demand, the hours of certain stores, including a sweet stop, have recently been extended, Berry said
...elected, Lee will have to make a clear choice between soothing or defying Beijing. They believe he will decide on a calming approach, and Beijing is counting on Washington to urge him to do exactly that. But reverting to a long-established status quo will not advance China's demand for reunification nor expunge its vision of a Taiwan drifting further and further away...
...encouraging terrorism, but the Iranians denied the charge. The attack is part of the Front's campaign against the Al Khalifa royal family which represents the emirate's ruling Sunni muslim minority. Tens of thousands of the oil-rich emirate's Shiite majority are poor and unemployed, and demand restoration of the suspended parliament, freedom of speech, job opportunities and the release of political prisoners...