Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...states and cities around the country demand more local control of their administrative affairs, Harvard is also witnessing a bit of decentralization. This spring, instead of a central University-wide registration, the process will take place at each of the houses and the Freshman Union...
...union workers took to the picket lines, calling for GM to reduce overtime and hire more permanent employees.TIME Detroit bureau chief Bill McWhirterdescribes the latest walkout as a "virtual replay" of last October's strike at another Flint plant, when GM reluctantly gave in to the strikers' demands for a staff increase. McWhirter says that GM's current hard stance is surprising. "By giving in last October GM made it hard to say 'no' to the same issues. The only difference this time around is that because of interest rates there has been some softness in customer demand that...
...many years ago -- or was it only months? -- the traditional broadcast networks were relegated to the endangered-species list. Viewers were drifting to cable; industry seers were predicting a future of countless channels and "video on demand"; and ABC, CBS and NBC were fighting to remain relevant. Now it seems everybody wants to get into the network act. Warner's new WB Television Network, which premieres with a weekly two-hour block of sitcoms this Wednesday night, is one of two aspiring "fifth networks" making their debut this month. Next week the United Paramount Network -- a joint | venture by Paramount...
...engineers like to say, a clever hack -- one that touched the basic urge in computer users to control the world through their keyboards -- and it soon spawned imitators. At the University of Cambridge, for example, British students aimed a camera at the computer lab's coffeepot and transmitted, on demand, digital snapshots of the state of the brew...
That prospect has infuriated ordinary Mexicans, who have seen the purchasing power of their paychecks erode more than 40% since 1982, and who voted for Zedillo because he promised to replace austerity with prosperity. Several thousand workers and political activists marched in Mexico City to demand better working conditions. Nor were investors and financial markets placated: although they welcomed the news that Mexico will sell off many of the state's power plants, they had also hoped Zedillo would privatize parts of the country's lucrative oil monopoly...