Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Globe told this rib-tickler Tuesday when it announced that top humorist Mike Barnicle, who reprinted loosely-disguised George Carlin quips from the bestselling book "Brain Droppings," would not be fired after all. Declaring that "the punishment did not fit the crime," editor Matthew Storin has withdrawn his demand for Barnicle's resignation, and replaced it with this two-month wrist-slap. Curiously, Storin's change of heart came after he met with Globe publisher Benjamin B. Taylor...
...watch, or surf) lines could be a dream for consumers, they will be a nightmare for the mega-Bells, which must add new subscribers faster than they lose revenue to new competitors and pricing pressures. Some firms, like AT&T, hope to find lucre in international markets, where telephone demand is growing in the triple digits. Says AT&T CEO C. Michael Armstrong: "Societies are attempting to rise in the economic order, and multinationals are reaching out to serve them...
Seem like a fuss? It is--a long-overdue fuss. About two years ago, the video-rental business began fading faster than Godzilla. Remarkably, the decline had little to do with new technologies like video on demand, long thought to be the industry's Death Star. The threats from technology persist. But it was management, not technology, that caused so much corporate pain and so many customer complaints. After all, how many times are you willing to go out for Titanic and come back with The Poseidon Adventure? Eventually you just stop going out. And that's exactly what happened...
Congressional Republicans want the electorate to know the GOP is more hawkish than the White House in the war on drugs. Two weeks after President Clinton announced a campaign that focused on reducing not only the supply but also the demand for drugs, the GOP struck back with an old standby: Just say "No mas" -- legislation that would greatly beef up the U.S. presence on the border in order to halt the inflow of drugs...
...debates over drug policy. "Attempts to interdict narcotics have taken a heavy toll on American society, but they've failed to end the drug problem," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Internationally, drug control is moving in the direction of complementing interdiction with education campaigns and rehabilitation programs to reduce demand for drugs, and even financial incentives for impoverished farmers to switch from drug plants to alternative crops." But with midterm elections looming, the GOP initiative may restrain any inclination in the Clinton administration to try alternative strategies...