Word: demanding
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...market. The $35-to-$40 Swatch, which reduced by half the usual number of parts by building them directly into the casing on automated assembly lines, was an instant success, enabling the Swiss watchmaking industry to command 53% of the world market. The company has kept demand for the watches high by staying on the cutting edge of new designs, turning out some 140 new models each year plus limited-edition designer collections...
Also be prepared, at least in New Delhi, for things which look pretty familier to those in America. With CNN and MTV now available on demand, even the most dyed-in-the-wool Larry King or Beavis and Butthead fan need not despair...
...resurgent activists only to relent by the June deadline to demonstrate enough improvement to merit renewal of MFN. Or, the experts said, the tough old communists expect Clinton to back down and compromise. Either way, they are making it extremely difficult for themselves to meet the U.S. demand for % "overall significant progress." Last week they were not even trying...
...Hollywood, as in war, truth is often the first casualty. Stories told onscreen demand heroes, villains and an intelligible plot line. Real life, on the other hand, tends to get messy -- the lines between good and bad often cross. Two years ago, director Oliver Stone was excoriated in the press for playing fast and loose with certain facts in JFK. Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father has largely escaped such criticism in the U.S., but only because Americans are unfamiliar with the story it is based on. In Britain, where people have lived with the case...
Legislators are particularly determined to establish procedures that will require CIA officials to scrutinize the personal finances of employees who have access to sensitive information. This demand is hardly original. Virtually every recent intelligence study conducted has pressed the point that the love of money -- not ideology -- drives modern-day espionage. Yet the CIA has made little effort to oversee employee assets. While polygraph tests now probe for signs of financial vulnerability, no effort is made to expose hidden wealth. So far, only top-level employees must disclose their financial , holdings. And the CIA has access to employees' income...