Word: demanding
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Though Bill Clinton has, as yet, no settled policy on trade, the signs are that he wants to enforce restrictions--and that he will be a lot more forceful than his relatively accommodating predecessor, George Bush. Where necessary, that will mean using coercion to demand better access to foreign markets for American exporters. And nowhere is such an approach more necessary, many of Clinton's advisers say, than in dealing with Japan--whose trade surplus with America is growing, and whose leaders are not to be trusted. To get results in Japan, the argument goes, toothless multilateral pacts...
Parliament and its aggressive leader, Ruslan Khasbulatov, will be mounting an attack of their own. When Yeltsin does not come up with the required 53 million votes, they may demand his resignation or try again to vote him out of office, as they almost did last month. The Constitutional Court's Zorkin could rule that the President should resign in favor of the Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, another anti-Yeltsinite...
...rally, the council will demand that Rudenstine formally affirm the University's opposition to the ban on gays in the military, said Andrew Greenspan, a medical student on the council...
...request and not an order. GM, arguing that NHTSA is relying on questionable data, may refuse the appeal. The company, which has until April 30 to respond, has vigorously defended the fuel tanks against lawsuits and critical news reports, most notably Dateline NBC. If GM balks, NHTSA could demand a recall...
...launching into a spiel that he may have delivered once or twice before, "is a primitive version of a machine that will offer nearly unlimited possibilities for entertainment within about 10 years. What I have to do is get these talented people through a period of relatively low demand the best way I can. Because once those technologies are in place, there will be the most incredible shortage of product...