Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past two weeks have been traumatic. Seething frustration at increased food prices and widespread layoffs provoked by the worst economic crisis in decades crystallized into the demand for Suharto's removal. Intellectuals and students extended their anger to the country's lack of real democracy in a system that not only perpetuated Suharto and the army in power but also squelched press freedom, genuine opposition parties and independent courts. But for most ordinary Indonesians it was the spiraling bus fares and price of cooking oil forced on them by corruption and malfeasance that cost Suharto his legitimacy. Much...
...country's new wealth that became the targets of last week's rioting: shopping malls were looted and torched, car dealerships were destroyed, the new toll road from the airport was commandeered by lawless mobs who threatened to set fire to cars that did not hand over cash on demand. "I have never done anything like this before," said Sali, a 27-year-old man who had just taken a television from an electronics store in Jakarta's Tanah Abang district. "But we can't afford to buy anything anymore." The precedents were not good--the last time Indonesia went...
Klein's proposed solution appears to be aimed at separating Microsoft's operating system from its applications. In fact, the details of the talks that began emerging early Saturday evening made it clear Klein was looking for concessions that Microsoft was unlikely ever to grant. One demand, according to Microsoft, was that the company hide the Windows opening screen and let anyone in the software industry--except Microsoft--compete to offer a new one to PC makers. Another suggested that Microsoft either remove or turn off the Explorer browser that is even more thoroughly knit into Windows 98 than...
...What about Justice's demand that you not require computer makers to display Windows when a computer is turned...
...that emphatically should not mean it's an issue the administration can shut the book on because no one remembers the good ol' days anymore. University Hall and the Houses have the responsibility to continually reevaluate their efforts to improve student life. However, this won't happen without student demand...