Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Japan's pool of surplus capital being funnelled into other countries makes a retreat from foreign involvement impossible. Japanese investing abroad will demand that their government attempt to influence the policies and development of the nations where they have put their money...
...idea for the car came out of Mazda's research-and-design center in California, where planners foresaw demand for a car reminiscent of the European roadsters of the 1950s and '60s. Miata's original designer, Mark Jordan, whose father is head of design at GM, drew his inspiration from such legendary nameplates as M.G., Austin-Healy and Lotus...
...result of such programs, combined with Black demand for them, is a conservative backlash. These policies have fostered the idea that Blacks will eternally require more preferential treatment (i.e. are innately inferior) and that Blacks will never develop the work ethic of American political culture, among other of its aspects. In the workplace and the university, affirmative action leaves the nagging suspicion among all involved that Blacks are taking the place of more qualified whites...
...ability to market his own films gives Lee an edge when he deals with Hollywood. Still he approaches it with distrust and stubbornness. "I have a script, and they know I have final say. They know there are things I'm going to demand. If they want to do the film, these things have to be met, or else we don't do it." But Lee is in a precarious position: he needs the power, muscle and money of a major studio to market and distribute his films, while still protecting his work. "He is fighting for his creative life...
...America's abortion policy could end up roughly where it is now: abortion available more or less on demand for the first three months (when more than 90% of today's abortions take place anyway), available only for certain weighty reasons in mid-pregnancy and generally unavailable for the last few weeks. But we would arrive at that sensible arrangement without all the embarrassing intellectual paraphernalia of "trimesters" and "viability" that came out of Justice Blackmun's futile effort, in the Roe decision, to derive a necessary compromise between moral absolutes from first principles. There are no first principles, constitutional...