Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that reason and others, Detroit is exercising caution in introducing smart features; the industry is testing and retesting them to ensure that they live up to their promise and is carefully anticipating the degree of consumer demand for each item. It remembers only too well such failures as the talking dashboard ("Your door is ajar"), the tiny electrical wipers on side-view mirrors, the early fuel-injection systems that repeatedly stalled...
...wonderful book Culture of Complaint). By now the game is to accuse others of playing the victim card, and then to trump them. Blacks and women having had their turn, it is apparently the moment for white males to enjoy semiofficial permission to feel sorry for themselves-and to demand redress. This is a class war everyone is fighting, and no one is suing for peace. Maybe it's a job for Jimmy Carter...
...case of the assault-weapons ban, the Speaker acted more aggressively. Though Republican leaders know they have to allow a repeal vote eventually, Clinton's State of the Union vow to fight a rollback caused the National Rifle Association to demand a quick show of strength in the House, something Gingrich fears will turn voters off before the 100 days are up. Determined not to let the issue derail his contract, Gingrich came up with a compromise that the N.R.A. reluctantly accepted: February hearings that would allow progun groups to speak, followed by a vote sometime in the spring...
...publisher, Little, Brown, a Time Warner company, sprang for an initial printing of 500,000 and reserved press time for reprinting within a week if the demand was there. Charles E. Hayward, president and CEO of Little, Brown, said he ``had no qualms whatsoever'' about publishing. Hayward said that ``if you just enter into endeavors looking to make money, that's probably where you lose the most. The power of the message and power of context in which the book has been published really was its greatest appeal.'' Still, buyers probably would be well advised not to look...
Stock prices in general, though, could falter again if final damage estimates climb higher. The demand for capital for building projects could push long-term interest rates higher, drain cash out of the stock market and divert large amounts of money from other important enterprises...