Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...career forum, over 60 tables were dedicated to corporations, roughly four to public service. The overwhelming majority of organizations interviewing at OCS is in the private sector. Now Harvard may argue that the demand for a Peace Corps presentation is not there and only banks can afford to rent the Faculty Club for a panel discussion...
Knowles points to the 1997 appointment of SusanT. Cooke, director of student activities as anexample of an administrative response to a growingstudent demand...
...critical. In Louisiana, as in other states, TIME encountered those outraged by the escalating handouts but fearful of losing their jobs and powerless to stop the process. A Baton Rouge state official, who agreed to talk anonymously, said some companies today practice a form of "extortion" in Louisiana--they demand tax breaks yet give back very little in return. At one time, he said, companies might actually create new jobs in exchange for the abatements. "Today the corporations may add one or two new jobs for every million [dollars in abatements they receive]," he said. "That's not fair." Even...
...Nintendo hopes Zelda will drive people to buy its console, the N64, closing the gap with Sony's PlayStation. (In the same way, an earlier Miyamoto blockbuster, Donkey Kong, provided the beachhead for the old Super Nintendo Entertainment System.) Some 250,000 customers have already reserved copies of Zelda; demand was so great that Nintendo discontinued its "presell" program. The company expects to sell 2.5 million copies, at $69 a pop, by Christmas...
...months ago, after the President admitted to a dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, Jones took that as vindication of her own claim that Clinton made a sexual advance toward her in 1991. She then dropped her demand for an apology, a key reason why earlier settlement talks had foundered. Last Friday, after negotiations complicated by a million-dollar sweetener from eccentric New York millionaire Abe Hirschfeld, Jones settled the case for $850,000--a tidy premium over the $700,000 she sought when she brought...