Word: demanding
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...note, a U.S. Treasury Department spokesman held a news conference--in Moscow. Jittery Russian savers, oft burned by the unstable ruble and corrupt banks, hold $15 billion in U.S. cash, most in $100 bills, and up to $200 million in greenbacks is flown to Russia daily to meet demand. Despite U.S. assurance that old notes will be valid "forever," Russians are expected to race to exchange their old notes as soon as the new ones are released next month...
...sources of Mrs. Clinton's problems may be herself. In her 20/20 interview last week with Barbara Walters, the First Lady's answers were both forthright and unsatisfying. Did she demand the firing of the White House travel staff? Chief of staff Mack McLarty "took responsibility for the decision," she said. "I did not tell him to do anything." But while McLarty may have taken responsibility, it was administrative aide David Watkins who did the firings. And in the 1993 memo disclosed by the White House two weeks ago, Watkins wrote that he did it at her "insistence...
...medicine, research hospitals paid for clinical research through billing surpluses; grants from the National Institutes of Health tended to pay only for big-ticket basic science. Colorado's Dr. Jones accuses HMOs of placing medicine in a double bind. "Is it reasonable," he asks, "for an insurer to demand the gold standard of proof and simultaneously refuse to pay for patients to enter a trial to get that level of proof?" Dr. Jones is convinced that women who once would have come to him for a transplant aren't coming because their doctors, operating under tight managed-care cost guidelines...
Iraq's Ambassador to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoon, announced on Tuesday that Iraq would finally accede to a United Nations demand to spend oil revenue for needed food and medical supplies for its beleaguered population. But it was not clear that Iraq has made a firm decision. The international embargo on Iraq, first imposed in August of 1990, has devastated the Iraqi economy. Until now, Hussein has refused the UN offer to allow Iraq to sell a billion dollars of oil every 90 days because of the monitoring strings attached. As a result of Hamdoon's announcement, the price...
...defeat, Shula maintained that he was going to complete the remaining year of his two-year contract as coach and general manager. But on Wednesday, he and Huizenga met, and the owner informed him that if Shula stayed, he would have to dismiss most of his coaching staff. The demand was too much for Shula's pride and sense of loyalty. So on Thursday, his 66th birthday, he called it quits, and on Friday the Dolphins announced that Shula, a part-owner of the team, would become vice chairman of the board of directors. His replacement will probably be either...