Word: demandingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Now Russian nationalists are getting into the act, demanding that their government stand firm on the issue and give nothing back. One may not agree with them, but their arguments are at least understandable. Suppose you are a patriotic Russian in your 60s. Your childhood was passed amid the horrors...
The post office is my most vital friend. Oprah would say the post office is my enabler. Last spring, the phrase on everybody's lips was" do you want the same people running health care who run the post office?" All I could answer was, YES! The post office sweeps...
Central Intelligence Agencyofficials denied charges by Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) that the agency witheld information about the deaths of an American innkeeper and a Guatemalan rebel leader married to a U.S. citizen. But the agency said nothing about the congressman's most explosive allegation. In a letter delivered...
The retirement age is already scheduled to rise very slowly, to 67 by 2027. Many think it should be boosted faster, and to age 70. "It is absurd to keep the same retirement age as when life expectancy was 10 to 15 years lower," says economist Friedman--still active as...
In TV's newest batch of coffee-klatch sitcoms, however, no one seems to be doing much of anything except hanging out. On Friends--which has entered the Nielsen Top 10 after being moved to the high-profile time period following Seinfeld--a group of indolent twentysomethings seems to have...