31.   Japan has been battered for more than a year with U.S. demands to get its financial house in order and lead Asia out of economic crisis.

32.   Kemp made his trade demand to the Sonics through his agents, who met with Walker days after the season finale and delivered the request.

33.   Nationally, there is a backlog of factory orders, spilling demand to used boats that sell for close to their original price.

34.   NBC will invest in and supply programming to a startup online service to provide movies, television programs and music on demand to personal computers.

35.   Natural gas rose on speculation that colder-than-normal weather over the next week will cause heating demand to increase.

36.   Next month, meanwhile, the annual marching season peaks, as Protestant groups demand to march through Catholic neighborhoods where they are not wanted.

37.   Netscape took advantage of the demand to more than double the price of the shares from where it initially expected to sell them.

38.   No administration, whatever its attitude toward the Indians, could withstand the demands to clear the path for settlers and wealth-seekers.

39.   One goal of the merged company is to bring pay-per-view movies on demand to millions of homes.

40.   Production restraints have served to keep OPEC from profiting from an increase in global oil demand to the benefit of non-OPEC producers, they said.