Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Feldenkreis brackets the bipolar condition of the American economy: Supreme International, driven by homegrown demand, perks along, while Carfel, at the mercy of foreign markets, falls on hard times. And Feldenkreis' dilemma is the dilemma of many owners and managers skittering along the edge of what may be an economic precipice: Which company points to the real future in the U.S.? Should domestic managers ignore international warning flags and proceed full steam ahead with plans for new hiring, marketing and capital investments? Or should they batten down and abandon plans for growth until the worst has passed...
...household income of $30,000. If your income had gone up at the same rate as Intel's, by 1997 you would have earned $359,100. Yet you would have saved $13,600 in state taxes. And you would owe it to the clout you exercise: the ability to demand and receive special tax treatment...
...watching the World Series as it happens--and not on video the next day--is important. These are livings that lose something in time lag. It is not that they lose their suspense or mystery. And it is not that the anticipation of their retelling many years from now demands an anecdotal "what I was doing as I turned 21." These times are special because they are urgent. They confound the order of life by acting like petulant children. They demand to be entertained right at this moment and I indulge them because I know that...
What is unique about this sort of urgency is that it is completely self-imposed. It has nothing to do with the panicky demand of printing out a paper at 4:56 p.m. and getting it to the Quad by 5 p.m. Instead it is an internal urgency which asks me to remember myself and to be vigilant in those remembrances. The rituals of birthdays are blissfully self-centered and rightfully so. It is charming to me and only me to smile as I remember the date. It is amusing only to me to file away the fact that Julia...
...attack, is insane. But the incident may simply be the latest symptom of Russia's social unraveling. "He hadn't been paid for months, although that's nothing unusual here," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "People are getting desperate, starting to point guns at their bosses to demand their salaries. Orlov's attack won't be the last such case...