Word: demanding
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Critics on the left are just as likely as those on the right to demand that he take a public stand. "I don't think you can save souls without working for justice," says Professor James Cone of Union Theological Seminary in New York City. "I hear Billy Graham as interested in saving souls of the poor but not interested in changing the conditions that create the poverty...
Increasingly skeptical voters, however, demand results just about that measurable and turn surly because they rarely get them. The message of the election returns last week "is a kind of distemper on the part of the public and a dislike of insiders of all stripes," says Scott Keeter, who runs the Commonwealth Poll at Virginia Commonwealth University. Comments Jay Severin, a New York-based political consultant who often advises Republican candidates: "I don't think it's a Republican message. It's more a Perot message. People are angry...
Restaurant co-owner Grenville Byford said yesterday that he plans to set up Brew Houses in cities around the country in an effort to capitalize on the growing demand in the U.S. for specialty foods and drinks...
...school shifted its services to satisfy a new war-linked demand after World War II began. "In those years we did nothing but prepare for the entrance exam for aviation cadets," recalled current owner Robert Hall. Now in his 57th year managing the school, Hall, 83, said he will probably retire "sometime soon...
...elected Jean Chretien as their next leader. Chretien's Liberal Party won 177 of 295 seats in the House of Commons, while the Progressive Conservatives lost 153 of their 155 seats, the worst defeat in Canadian history. Chretien quickly caused concern in Washington by declaring that he would demand changes in the North American Free Trade Agreement...