Word: demanding
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Black coaches, so the reasoning goes, aregenerally few in number and highly in demand, forthe same reasons Harvard wishes it had moreminority coaches player welfare, diversity and acommitment to equity...
...days preceding the President's arrival, Adams, after lobbying from Clinton, made a series of crucial statements which made the meeting possible. Adams said the violence "must be for all of us now a thing of the past, over, done with and gone." This fulfilled a Unionist demand that the I.R.A., through Adams, replace their cease-fire with a permanent denunciation of violence...
...decade's explosive growth in global freedom and commerce. But then came the currency crisis that began in Thailand in July 1997 and spread like a contagion through the rest of Asia--and last month to Russia and last week to Latin America, hammering down local currencies and slashing demand for U.S. exports. Cheaper Asian exports began grabbing more and more domestic business away from U.S. companies and sliced into their earnings. That trend finally drove down an overheated stock market, taking back, in the past seven weeks, almost a quarter of the $9 trillion that stocks have pumped into...
...changing the shape of the world day by day. Some critics fault him for settling for a country-by-country approach instead of trying to build a new world economic architecture. In any case, that policy is foundering as weak governments fail to give the markets what they demand...
Clinton's supporters argue he should get credit for not giving a faux-earnest Apology on Demand. But why would Clinton now, after seven months of sustained lying, suddenly choose honesty? His Slick Willie side has always known that the most important quality a politician can have is sincerity. And no politician is better at faking it than he is. In 1980 Clinton was a failed one-term Governor until he apologized for raising car-tag fees and got his wife to drop that fancy "Rodham" business with her name. In 1992 he became the Comeback Kid, miraculously saving...