Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...implications of this are both staggering and sickening because of the importance of Black children for the future of a free South Africa. Apartheid must fall when Black children achieve a dignity and pride in their heritage and grow up to rightfully demand the privdleges of South African whites. The government's measures against children show a systematic campaign to prevent Black South Africans from ever challenging its rule. Only an evil, cowardly regime preys on children. Soweto proved this. But the U.S. administration still feels no obligation to intervene...
Carnes said that many colleges, such as Franklin and Marshall University, have been intentionally raising their tuitions "in order to travel in the elite crowd" of universities that demand high prices...
...virus is also presenting serious ethicalissues, as some doctors question theirresponsibility in the care of AIDS patients andothers demand to know whether their patients havebeen infected with the virus, Hiatt said."Although only 10 health workers have gotten AIDSfrom their patients, the number will grow," hesaid...
Many agricultural products are becoming scarce. Although the government quadrupled the price of milk to reduce demand last November, both fresh and powdered milk are nearly impossible to find. Meat is generally available but too expensive for most tables. Even the country's largest export crop, coffee, has been endangered by mismanagement. Some 6,000 workers were dispatched last month to the northern part of the country to salvage what they can before millions of pounds of unpicked coffee beans rot on the ground...
...home-ownership drive has produced profitable spin-offs for black businesses, ranging from contractors and suppliers of building materials to dealers in instant lawns and burglar-alarm systems. Moses Mahlalela, 41, a design engineer with offices in one of the new Soweto shopping centers, can hardly keep up with demand. "I'm so busy I haven't had time to build a place of my own," he says, pointing to the dozen or so blueprints on his drawing boards. "But I intend to do that before the end of the year...