Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...management alike and are a source of worry to everyone. To suggest, however, that a wealthy institution like the Harvard Club must dump the burden of medical costs on its workers is preposterous. The Club is healthy financially, and increased its membership last year. There is no reason to demand a wage freeze, cut in benefits or other concessionary provisions in a new contract...
...many students were outraged because the report diluted their biggest demand: the call for an Afro-Am department. The report called only for the establishment of a committee on Afro-Am, but students held out for a formal department...
...students opposed the Vietnam War and lashed out at ROTC, the "alliance between the University and the warmakers" that was a manifestation of the war on campus. They forced their demand on an unsympathetic administration and brought their concerns to an attentive, national press...
Meanwhile, American companies are straining to keep up with the demand for existing vehicles. Sports-utility sales rose 16.5% in 1993 and have increased 18% so far this year. With those kinds of gains, Chrysler is adding a third shift to build Grand Cherokees around the clock at a Detroit plant this fall. Chrysler is also reopening a Missouri facility that it closed down four years ago and will now use to make Jeeps. For its part, Ford is converting a St. Louis plant that currently makes Aerostar vans to sports-utility production at a cost of nearly $600 million...
...team can be a huge potential moneymaker no matter how much crying you hear about selfish players who demand salaries greater than the GNP of small nations. For companies in the entertainment business, the idea is to end up with at least one pro franchise, plus the cable network to broadcast the games, the stadium with skyboxes and concessions, the movie rights and the foreign rights, and a shopping channel to sell the fan memorabilia. They can put Pete Rose on there eight hours a day signing baseballs while they show film clips of his greatest hits, with a special...