Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the report, College Hall wouldalso meet the demand for rooms for moviescreenings, performance group rehearsals and paneldiscussions. Recognizing that building a studentcenter is not an overnight project, the reportalso proposes more immediate solutions to theproblem. It recommends designating more areas inYard buildings to certain activities...
Student groups, perennially cramped for space in campus offices, are also feeling a financial pinch as demand invariably exceeds available funding...
Travel agents are eager to get federal agents involved because once a ticket is used, the carrier can demand payment from the agency, even for stolen tickets. The agents say the airlines could thwart these crimes by using scanners capable of detecting tickets that have been reported stolen. Such technology would have enabled Hawaiian Airlines, for example, to intercept two passengers who flew from Honolulu to Maui last year with stolen first-class tickets on a plane that had no first-class section...
...paranoid bond traders with more worries than a Woody Allen character. It is these traders who have decided that the prices you pay for gas, Wheaties and SUVs are about to start shooting higher, and so they are selling bonds--driving up bond yields--in what amounts to a demand that they get paid more while inflation rages...
...doesn't take a wing-tipped M.B.A. to spot the flaw here--much of the world is in or near recession, demand for personal computers is slowing, so are corporate profits. Amid that sluggishness, the Labor Department said Friday that unemployment inched higher in February--to 4.4%, from 4.3% the previous month. And the prices of raw materials like oil and copper, on average, are at their lowest in decades. This is not the stuff of sudden price hikes in consumer items. "It's beyond me how anyone can be worried about inflation," economist Allen Sinai at Primark Decision Economics...