Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kremlin today that he's ready to talk peace. President Dzhokhar Dudayev sent a telegram to Russian President Boris Yeltsin from a bomb shelter underneath the presidential palace in Grozny, stating he wants to start negotiations. But there was no indication from Russian or Chechen officials that the Chechen demand that all Russian troops leave before talks open would be embraced. Overhead, air strikes continued to pound the devastated city and Moscow did not publicly respond to his overture. Earlier today, the Russian defense minister said that his forces would "advance deep into the town with a view to confiscating...
...John Paul donated as exhibits. Please stop by the gift shop before you leave, she advises visitors. And please do pick up a copy of the Pope's new book. When that volume was first published in Poland this year, copies were so scarce -- the publisher had severely underestimated demand -- that they were selling at double the cover price...
This was the holy grail of interactive television: true video on demand. What you want to see, when you want to see it, delivered to your TV and only your TV. And it was real. Not a "proof of concept" demo, but a working system being used in at least a handful of customers' homes...
...boggle factor was most intense in Time Warner's Future Services exhibit, where more than a dozen potential services were on display -- from sports on demand to an instant medical-checkup service. In one such service, rock musician Todd Rundgren showed off his interactive music system, which allows customers to select listening choices by artist, style, tempo or mood. In another, ShopperVision demonstrated its "virtual" supermarket, where customers can browse 3-D aisles, choose among 20,000 kinds of packaged goods and order for same-day delivery...
Think you have been "recycling" bottles and newspapers? They have often been dumped in landfills because there wasn't enough demand for recyclables. Now there is, and the reusable trash is surging in value. The price of old newspaper increased more than 400% in the U.S. in the past year. And companies are scrambling to construct trash-reprocessing plants -- a sure sign that recycling is here to stay...