Word: demanding
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While the politicians fiddled, the economy was decomposing. The ruble, bouncing wildly from rate to rate and inflicting on traders what they call "ruble whiplash," has lost half its value in the past month. Prices are heading skyward. Domestic products are--at long last--in greater demand, but their prices are up so high that they have officially crossed the threshold of hyperinflation. In August monthly inflation jumped to 15%, the biggest increase in more than four years...
...years old you can't expect him to be running around like that," Ngwepe said. Still, Ngwepe acknowledged, Mandela is responding to a tremendous demand for his presence...
Peace in Bosnia may now demand a permanent Western presence, following the apparent triumph of Serb hard-liners in presidential elections. "Although the European election supervisors are holding back the result until next week, it does appear that [radical nationalist] Nikola Poplasen has beaten [moderate] Biljana Plavsic," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "And that's a serious blow for the West...
However, the demand for technology has expanded much faster than the supply of people who really know what's going on, people who keep their finger on the pulse of this great expansion. The result is a market for technical interpreters and gurus...
Court officials confirmed that the victim made the decision not to pursue the caseto trial. In the eyes of the law, the victim hasthe right to demand privacy and to stopprosecution at any point, said Lucy Murray-Brown,victim witness advisor to the Middlesex CountyDistrict Attorney's Office...