Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what they didn't get." Ceding power is "like getting out of the day-care business. All of a sudden, it looks like a good deal." So is Newt Gingrich nanny to the nation? He will certainly get to conciliate and cajole, to deal and dole out, to demand and deliver -- with all the clout of a victorious revolutionary, with all the prestige of a virtual President...
...most powerful committees have had their authority reduced. Still, Gingrich didn't pare back all of the sprawl. Ways and Means, for instance, is a magnet for campaign contributions because it controls the tax code. Chairman Bill Archer was willing to make do with 29 members, but demand for seats was so high that Gingrich made...
...this quest, organizations like the Harvard Square Business Association are not being helpful. They look askance at such wonderful inventions as McDonald's and other meccas for poor, hungry students. Yet the demand is there, from students who have been and continue to be the core of Harvard Square. Moreover, it's not a question of needing to attract these types of establishments; if Cambridge would stop meddling with the free market, the supply would move in to meet the demand...
...people on the Defense Fund don't know anything about simple economics like supply and demand," charges Tod Beaty, president of the Harvard Square Business Association. "Their plan for a mom-and-pop flavor actually backfired on them...
...Chiapas, for now Zedillo has some breathing room. Recognizing that he | had to defuse the situation quickly, last week he drew back an army buildup around rebel areas and accepted the rebel demand that Bishop Samuel Ruiz help negotiate peace. But in his new economic plan he is certain to defer his election promise that 1995 will be the year that prosperity will trickle down to the masses. That could mean the kind of social discontent that launched Mexico on its most recent cycle of headaches. Welcome to the nightmare...