Word: demand
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Agricultural subsidies are not the only potential GATT-busters. When the Uruguay Round talks began, industrial nations agreed -- at the demand of many developing countries -- to phase out trade barriers to textiles and apparel. Last month, however, the U.S. Congress approved a protectionist bill that would further limit textile-and-apparel imports and impose new quotas on such European products as Armani suits and Benetton sweaters. The bill, which President Bush plans to veto, would not only undermine the U.S. negotiating position in GATT but also increase the average American family's annual clothing costs by $750 in a decade...
Public debate surrounding Miss Saigon revolved around two poles of thought. Perhaps Actors' Equity had a right to demand that Pryce's role be reserved for a minority actor since few performances are so custom-made for affirmative action casting? On the other hand, perhaps the union was infringing upon the rights of both producer and actor involved in what may be viewed as a case of reverse discrimination...
...looking for ways to increase our offensive production," Captain John Shue said. "The biggest challenge for this team right now is to demand more from ourselves. I think this team is better than it thinks...
SOME argue that in a time of potential change in South Africa, we should not increase the isolation of that country. But although there has been some change, the most fundamental aspects of apartheid remain in place. Blacks are still not citizens and cannot vote. Further, the demand for Harvard's complete divestment from South Africa is a longstanding one. Only when the process of transforming South Africa into a non-racial democracy is irreversible should we give up this demand...
...that De Klerk has jump-started the negotiating process, the real question is whether he can engineer the final transition of power. One of the main stumbling blocks will be reconciling, as Mandela has put it, "the demand for majority rule in a unitary state" with "the concern of white South Africa over this demand." De Klerk's proposal for power sharing is to establish a constitutional mechanism that would safeguard "group rights," which sounds like a way of perpetuating privilege for the country's 5 million whites. Nonetheless Mandela recently endorsed the idea that the first post- apartheid government...