Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, there are other benefits, such as being able to share printers, scanners, fax machines and zip drives, and to be able to swap files instantly. But Net access, particularly high-speed access, say industry analysts, will be what really drives consumer demand. New York research firm Jupiter Communications predicts that one-fifth of American homes will have a digital subscriber line, cable modem and other high-speed pipe by 2002. You can bet that everyone in those homes--whether they like to play games, shop, chat, or trade stocks online--will want to share the big bandwidth...
...Saudis, the aim is to absorb some 300 million bbl. of supply overhang and bring inventories more in line with demand. It won't be easy. Nearly a year ago, some of the same countries that signed on to last week's deal agreed to reduce oil production by a whopping 3.1 million bbl. daily. When that happened, prices rose from $13 to more than $17 per bbl. Then flagrant quota busting, higher production from Iraq, warmer winter weather and lower demand for energy in Asia combined to wreck the price-fixing scheme, and oil crashed to just over...
...return for a portion of a prospective reward, they ask their victim to help them deposit the sum in a bank--and then demand some form of collateral to "safeguard" the deposit...
Members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) held a sit-in outside the Science Center yesterday afternoon to demand the implementation of a living wage for those who make Harvard clothing...
Professor of Anthropology Richard Wrangham, co-author of the popular book Demonic Males, says trade books demand the same rigor as scholarly monographs, but with a touch of color...