Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...price that may kill the deal. The EU's top regulator Wednesday ruled that approval would depend on the airlines' shedding up to 267 takeoff and landing slots a week in London, and reducing the frequency of flights from London to Chicago, Dallas and Miami if their competitors demand it. And with Virgin's Richard Branson charging that the EU wasn't harsh enough, the pressure on British-American isn't likely to let up. "There's no certainty that this deal will finally be consummated," says TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The extent of the sacrifice demanded...
...miniature basketball court and well-worn tricycles. The actor published a book last year, To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandson. But even in that sentimental volume, Heston can't resist a few pot shots: "Somewhere in the busy pipeline of public funding is sure to be a demand from a disabled lesbian on welfare that the Metropolitan Opera stage her rap version of Carmen as translated into Ebonics." Got that, Jack...
...only after Monica had spilled to the grand jury. But Starr's decision to bring Tripp to the stand before Lewinsky signals a standoff, at least for now, in the negotiations between the Starr and Lewinsky camps. The talks have snagged, sources tell TIME, over the prosecutors' well-known demand to interview Lewinsky before any immunity deal is struck. Starr's team has spent months attempting to corroborate the stories she told Tripp; now they want to walk her through it all, judging her credibility. They may even want to hook her up to a polygraph machine--particularly...
...tempers on both sides are exploding as the Kosovars demand full independence and Milosevic bids to bring the rebels to heel. Since March, when the Yugoslav army began an offensive against the guerrillas known as the Kosovo Liberation Army, about 300 people have died and an estimated 65,000 have been driven from their homes. When Holbrooke arrives, 50,000 Serb forces and several thousand K.L.A. fighters are skirmishing all over the province, targeting civilians in one another's villages...
...surprise. "Suharto would not have stepped down without cutting a deal to protect his family's wealth," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The military gave him certain guarantees to coax him out of power." But the thousands of Indonesians who fought for the dictator's ouster continue to demand that his wealth be turned over to the nation. So, in true horror movie fashion, the worst may be yet to come...