Word: demandingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are no more loans in Russia's near future. Even the next IMF payment, due Sept. 15, is in doubt because the fund is demanding a balanced budget. So Chernomyrdin and the communists who run parliament intend to go back to the printing press and turn out rubles. That...
Smelling blood in the economic meltdown, the lower house of parliament, or Duma, took the offensive, calling for Yeltsin to resign, demanding a greater share of power and disdainfully offering the President guarantees that he would not be prosecuted or harassed once he left office. More troubling still, the communists...
While I do not condone the use of illegal, performance-enhancing drugs by athletes, I feel you dropped the ball in your coverage of the drug controversy at this year's Tour de France. This race is the most demanding sanctioned athletic competition in the world, and that has led...
Most of these changes are occurring with only grudging acceptance from the people who produce and sell the music. "The music industry is still much closer to its artists than to its customers," says Paco Underhill of Envirosell Inc., a consumer-behavior research firm in New York City. Record companies...
Whitney's devoted writers and editors worry about the kind of internal culture that Fuller, who has a reputation as a prima donna and a harsh manager, will create. "Under Whitney," says an editor, "there are no tears, no screaming fits, no fabulous darlings." To her credit, Fuller is known...