Word: demand
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...looked as if it might be decided by one-five-thousandth of 1% of the vote. Gore seemed to have won a moral victory, but he may not have won an actual one. His 222,880-vote lead in the popular tally was the fuel for his campaign's demand for a manual recount in some Florida counties, for time to register the outcome of the absentee ballots there, and for the nation to show some patience. And so the end of one campaign marked the beginning of another. "The American people have now spoken," Bill Clinton declared...
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...second demand was for a living wage for all Harvard employees. At $10.25 (adjusted for inflation), the living wage is designed to keep Harvard families above the local poverty line. Versions of this policy have been adopted by the Cambridge, Boston and Somerville municipalities for all public employees. Harvard, the largest employer in Cambridge, refuses to uphold this community standard...
...Israel on Monday nixed the suggestion by Arafat that a United Nations force be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza to protect Palestinians from the Israeli army. But a senior Palestinian official on Monday added the demand that the European Union and the United Nations join the U.S. in mediating future peace talks. Those calls reflect a growing sense that while they're exploring ways of restoring dialogue, the Palestinians may be reluctant to simply pick up the negotiation process where it left off at Camp David. And the Israelis may share that reluctance, if for their own reasons...
...Israel on Monday nixed the suggestion by Arafat that a United Nations force be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza to protect Palestinians from the Israeli army. But a senior Palestinian official on Monday added the demand that the European Union and the United Nations join the U.S. in mediating future peace talks. Those calls reflect a growing sense that while they're exploring ways of restoring dialogue, the Palestinians may be reluctant to simply pick up the negotiation process where it left off at Camp David. And the Israelis may share that reluctance, if for their own reasons...