Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...privilege, failed Monday to convince D'Amato to accept a restricted version of the papers, which the committee believes could shed light on whether two presidential aides interefered with two Whitewater-related criminal investigations in 1993. Even if the dispute fades, the panel has since made a more portentous demand: that the White House produce what it says are missing documents concerning Hillary Rodham Clinton's work for Madison Guaranty, the failed savings and loan at the heart of the scandal, including billing records from the Rose law firm that documented the extent of her involvement...
...oppressive Romans and a corrupt aristocracy, typified by the hated King Herod. Some scholars believe that Jesus was one of many political rebels in Palestine. His proclamation that the meek would inherit the earth was, in this view, not a dream of eschatological hope but a here-and-now demand for a new political order...
...interest rate. The higher the interest rate, the more expensive it is for companies to borrow money and invest, therefore, as the interest rate rises investment decreases. The budget deficit drives up the interest rate because as the government tries to borrow more and more money it increases demand in the loanable funds market. Since an increase in demand with no change in supply always causes the price of a good to rise, the increase in demand for loanable funds will produce a higher interest rate which leads to less investment...
...sudden verdict and sentencing of Wei after he spent 20 months in jail without being charged with anything has many Western observers puzzled. "They've been able to get away with indefinitely detaining him without hearing too much international outcry. So why try him now? Perhaps internal politics demand that the leadership do something firm to appear strong they prepare for the upcoming struggle over Deng's succession...
...Europe, and these days it's easy to see why. For more than a week, striking transport workers, joined by postal and utilities employees, have brought the country to a virtual standstill to protest the government's new social-welfare reforms. University students are striking and marching to demand more teachers and resources. Algerian radicals have conducted a wave of terrorist bombings, and soldiers carrying machine guns patrol the Metro and train stations. The unemployment rate is 11.8%, one of the highest in the industrialized world. After only six months in office, conservative President Jacques Chirac has seen his approval...