Look, say, the children are coming. CROWD CLAMORING

A crowd of them followed us here. PEOPLE CLAMORING

CROWD CLAMORING HUGO Why don't you leave them alone?

Back then, Americans were not clamoring to eat Chinese food.

International journalists are clamoring for news all along the Strip.

Now back then, the Americans were not clamoring to eat Chinese food.

This is a time when all of these people are clamoring to get back in.

But that does not concern most Libyans, who are clamoring for the dismissal of Qaddafi loyalists.

And speculators must take responsibility for their decisions, and stop clamoring for taxpayer money whenever their investments turn bad.

And Kosovo s Albanian population is clamoring for independence, while Serbia tries to postpone a decision by blocking action in the Security Council.

While the displaced are clamoring to return to their areas of origin, political and electoral manipulation are making their return practically impossible.

The demonstrators have been clamoring for justice for the victims of the genocidal massacres of 1971 that led to the former East Pakistan s secession from Pakistan.

And they have long confronted multiple agendas and constituencies, from those clamoring to influence the League of Nations disarmament conferences of the 1930 s to those wielding the megaphones in Copenhagen in December.

Many TV producers have internalized these controls so well that they are an unconscious fact of life, and audiences now entertained by endless costume dramas and soap operas are not clamoring for freer political content.

But the popularity of the handout option raises an important and instructive question just how did the ruling classes in these countries amass fortunes so large that people are clamoring for them to be redistributed?

While the US economy is in the final stages of a seismic shift from manufacturing to service oriented industries, China and India are ascendant, and Muslims throughout Asia are clamoring for a greater role in global affairs.

Now, despite the recent revelations about briberies in the UN's oil for food program for Iraq, the world is clamoring to entrust Annan with the future of more than 20 million Iraqis who survived Saddam Hussein's depraved dictatorship.

Politically and economically exhausted, and attentive to electorates clamoring for a shift of priorities to urgent domestic concerns, Europe and America are no longer very capable of imposing their values and interests through costly military interventions in faraway lands.

A year from now, what kind of economy will the US have? Any short term fiscal stimulus effect will have worn off, unemployment will still be high, and there will no doubt be politicians clamoring for more tax cuts.

As a result, demands for more opportunities and better living conditions have grown louder. Chileans are clamoring for adequate housing, access to better health services, a safer environment, and access to higher education the most important factor in social advancement.

And yet, even though politicians who fail to safeguard economic growth and high employment tend to lose the next election, leaders in Europe and the US are clamoring to enact policies that would reduce output and employment in the short run.

Concessional loans at trifling interest rates (between 0.25 and 0.75 , well below the cost of servicing the loans) are also extended as lines of credit, tied mainly to the purchase of Indian goods and services, and countries in Africa have been clamoring for them.