Pressed by a demand for electricity, Chile is considering seven big dams and a transmission line through its southern wilderness; critics say the environmental risks have not been fully examined.
Top German officials traveled to Washington this month to press an unusual demand: to negotiate a new formal agreement with the United States that neither side will spy on the other.
Mr. McCain, for his part, pressed his demand for an apology from Mr. Bush for a rally in Sumter, S.C., last week during which Mr. Bush smilingly accepted endorsements and plaudits from military veterans who lambasted Mr. McCain's record on veterans' issues.
When the WLS pressed the demand at a meeting of the Assembly's culture committee, it was told by Dafydd Wigley, a former Plaid Cymru leader: "What is reasonable for a privatised utility might not be for a small business in Newport".*No thank you.
A brake and an accelerator foot pedal had to be pressed on demand as fast as possible.
After the meeting here between General Zinni and Mr. Sharon Monday evening, during which the envoy pressed the American demand for an Israeli withdrawal, Ranaan Gissen, Mr. Sharon's spokesman, said only: ''We have ongoing contacts and various discussions.
They plan to resume their daily demonstrations outside the parliament building, and to set up a new, formally-registered movement to press their demand for a change of government.
Barack Obama has dispatched a clutch of senior American officials to Jerusalem to press his demand for an end to Jewish settlement construction and move along a diplomatic process aimed at imposing a blueprint for peace if negotiations fail.
Mr. Rao continued to press his demand of a separate state and the Congress Party of betraying his region.
North Korea is expected to press its demand that a consortium led by the United States stop delaying construction of twin nuclear reactors to fulfill the North's energy needs, as provided in a 1994 agreement.
