Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who are fed up with binge drinking, the experts offer this advice: don't get even, get mad. "They must speak up for their rights," says Henry Wechsler, a public health expert who led the Harvard study. "If your roommate gets drunk every night, you demand either a new roommate or that you be moved." Wechsler is quick to point out that he doesn't want to get rid of drinking, just drunkenness. With up to 85% of college students imbibing at least some of the time, total prohibition is not practical, he says, but colleges can insist...
...sales lifted because the oil revenue is the only way Iraq can pay for arms it buys from the old U.S.S.R., and Moscow needs the money. Financial pressure also underlies Moscow's insistence that any Western companies drilling for oil in Azerbaijan build a pipeline through Russia, a demand that has aborted some promising deals. The U.S. responded calmly to Yeltsin's announcement on Friday that he had authorized the army to use "all means at * the state's disposal" to bring the breakaway republic of Chechnya back into the Russian Federation. "The Chechnya question is a Russian internal matter...
Other skills in demand include computer expertise and knowledge of foreign languages...
...Polish, Italian, Jewish and Irish clientele," says Bob Wheeler, owner of 75 year-old S&S Restaurant and Deli Catering. "Now you don't see any Polish names on the doors. The Polish sausage maker stopped making sausage, because he just got too old and there wasn't enough demand...
...summation, the judge declared, "For at least the past quarter-century, Americans have been captivated by two concepts that have become accepted public policy: deinstitutionalization and preservation of the family. Both are worthy goals pursued to unworthy ends. I suggest that it is time for us to demand that government provide permanent, well-run orphanages for the more than 2 million abused children who are de facto orphans...