Word: demandingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ethnic lobbying groups such as the Polish American Congress had already begun flooding the White House and Capitol Hill with telegrams demanding that NATO enlarge. Bob Dole and the House Republican Contract with America backed expansion. But White House polls during the 1996 campaign showed that enlargement wasn't a...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fred Thompson may not have his star witness after all. When Senator John Glenn sprung the tantalizing news on the eve of the hearings that key suspect and Democratic fundraiser John Huang might testify before the Senate campaign finance committee, Thompson's show looked to be starting off...
The President was understandably silent about all this, but his surrogates treated the news like a hanging curve ball. "A salacious witch-hunt," cried former White House counsels Abner Mikva and Jack Quinn, demanding that Starr either abandon this avenue of inquiry or resign. Pumped with rage and delight, adviser...
HONG KONG: Hours after the newly-seated provisional legislature ratified a law giving police the power to ban political demonstrations, more than 3,000 pro-democracy demonstrators marched through the downtown area deriding China's form of government and demanding freedom of speech. Such protests may become more difficult starting...
In strictly private negotiations, there is really no point in striking dramatic poses and demanding the impossible. So in recent communications with the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat didn't do any posturing and didn't ask Netanyahu to cancel his plan to build...