Word: demanding
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...protection under the law. Writing for a 5-to-4 majority, Justice Lewis Powell assumed that the study was valid but said it did not prove discrimination in McCleskey's case or in Georgia's death sentencing generally. "Because discretion is essential to the criminal justice process, we would demand exceptionally clear proof before we would infer that the discretion has been abused." To raise successful equal-protection objections, a defendant has to prove discrimination "in his case." Nor did the numbers show the sort of arbitrary dispensation of justice prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. They merely indicate, he wrote...
Still very much in question, of course, is whether the impending changes will be enough at least to buy some time for further changes. And the demand of the black majority's leaders, both in and out of prison, is not just change but a change to black power. An election without blacks, one Soweto leader said last week, is "obscene." Botha and the Afrikaners retain full control of the instruments of power: almost all the officers of the well-equipped police force are Afrikaners, and the army is unquestionably the best on the continent. But facing the angry defiance...
...Soviet reforms nonetheless defend Castro's path. The farmers' markets, insists Enrique Capetillo Llana, an editor of the popular magazine Bohemia, "were too capitalistic." Ordinary Cubans have reacted to the new austerity with the indifference born of previous zigzags by Castro -- and with occasional spurts of defiance. Demand for underground home videocassette recorders, for example, has remained so strong that the government has tried to offset it by opening a series of VCR salons for public...
...Americans may be eating a healthier diet than they once did, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has calculated that in 1985 Americans were consuming 7% more food per capita than they were ten years earlier. Meanwhile, the wave of women entering managerial and professional ranks has greatly increased the demand for fashionable clothing in all sizes -- along with the income to pay for it. Some clothing experts estimate that fully 45% of women wearing size 16 or larger are in the free-spending, fashion-conscious 25-to-35 age bracket. Their purchasing power will continue to expand...
Arafat resisted a demand by the radicals that he sever ties with Egypt. ; But he accepted their view that if an international peace conference ever held, the P.L.O. should have its own representatives and not simply be part of another Arab delegation. That decision reduced to an absolute zero whatever slight chance existed of progress toward peace in the immediate future...