Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first half, though there was some eggbeater-like action in midfield a time or two. When the ball strayed into the stands, play stopped until the fans returned it to play, something that rarely happens in American sports. American sports are so spoiled, in fact, they tend to demand a new, unblemished ball if a seam so much as feels a sigh coming...
...free. The four broadcast networks, which own local stations in big markets, have always been frustrated by this situation, and in 1992 they were allowed to seek retransmission payments from the cable operators. The cable companies refused to pay, however, so a compromise was reached. The networks dropped their demand for money, and in return the cable systems agreed to carry and pay for new cable channels that the networks would devise. (CBS bungled this battle and ended up with nothing...
...amounts to an allowance," Anderson says. "And she gives a lot of it to the boy." The welfare check binds a boy and girl together, just as a baby can. "There's no ring involved, but the boy comes to expect his share of the check. Sometimes he'll demand his share from the girl and fight about it, saying, 'If it weren't for me, you wouldn't be getting this check...
Mickey Kantor, the U.S. trade representative, indicated that the Administration may be willing to settle for a partial trade agreement with Japan instead of continuing to demand that Tokyo open five priority markets ranging from automobiles to insurance. American officials said a deal covering telecommunications, medical equipment and insurance could be ready for signing next month when representatives of the world's leading industrial countries gather at the Group of Seven summit in Naples, Italy...
...some pretty humdrum passages: "We held the first Freedom Day in the Hotel Crillon, in Lima, on Feburary, 6, 1988; the second, devoted to agrarian subjects, at the San Jose hacienca in Chincha on February 18; on February 26, in Arequipa..." For most readers, such moments will probably demand a greater interest in Peruvian affairs than can fairly be expected...