Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While Senate majority leader Robert Dole and Speaker of the House Gingrich bemoan the state of American culture, they oppose government mandates on children's programming and demand that pbs stop relying on federal appropriations. "It's nauseating," says Charren, "that the same guy [Dole] who is attacking what's terrible in entertainment is working very hard to keep the alternatives from getting on the TV screen...
...other rocks," she says. "You can use other kinds of rocks to force bulbs, but it's just not the same experience. These rocks make the flowers look better." She is discouraged to learn that the store has sold out-in fact, it can't keep up with demand. "We've got someone now traveling around Indonesia looking for a new source for us," says assistant manager Christina Denkinger. The gold-leafed pots have also sold out. "People in Beverly Hills," says the store's "visual merchandiser," Jerry Wingate, "like shiny things...
...side of indigent legal assistance. It is the lawyer of last resort for poor people with family, housing, consumer or entitlement problems. But it has long been a target of conservatives. Senator Phil Gramm has called for LSC's possible abolition, although he may be backing down on that demand. House Budget chairman John Kasich has proposed deep cuts in LSC funding and aims to phase it out altogether. Traditionally, the right has taken issue with LSC's history of filing class actions against the government on behalf of the poor over welfare benefits, food stamps, and the like...
Syria rejected an Israeli demand for athree-year test of peaceful relations before it withdraws from the Golan Heights, then suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was seeking toundermine peace talksscheduled for June 27 in Washington. "Israel has resumed the policy of maneuvering and scattered the wave of optimism . . . and put all peace efforts exerted by the international community in jeopardy," Syria's official government daily, Tishrin, wrote today.TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyersays the statement contradicts positive signals that Syrian President Hafez Assad has sent through diplomatic channels in the wake of Secretary of State Warren Christopher...
...just be networking, but sometimes I wonder if because of the municipalities' salary structures, minority individuals who are really in high demand by the private sector are being attracted to that sector," says Linda Chin, vice president for planning and marketing at the Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network...