Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...badly want Congress to approve the $368 billion deal they cut last year with the states is that it offers them immunity against future lawsuits. And the main reason they want immunity is to save money. But they also want to save face. In every tobacco lawsuit, plaintiffs can demand and make public the industry's internal documents, even as a condition of cases settled out of court. Just how damaging those disclosures can be is plainer than ever since last week, when a California suit opened a flood of secret industry papers. What many of them seem to show...
...every country occasionally lie to their people. The difference is that in Japan this practice has long been acceptable. "The government is structured in a way that it regularly does not tell the truth," says Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a professor of history at Tokyo's Chuo University. "They simply demand our trust." Yoshimi made headlines several years ago when, after painstaking research, he documented the charge that during World War II the Japanese military had forced Chinese and Korean women into prostitution. Like other evidence of wartime atrocities, this is still denied by many in Japan, which, unlike Germany, has never...
Glassman recalls how the demand, "Are you there as a reporter or a participant?" forced him to think seriously about his role...
...editorial page is for Harvard to "reform" the Core Curriculum, a set of general liberal arts classes from which each student must take about eight. Though each generation of students--with their short four year stays--may view their cries as unique, The Crimson Staff has been making this demand since before the Core was even instituted. In June 1977, when then-Dean Henry Rosovsky was still designing the curriculum, The Crimson Staff was already calling for a revamp...
...asked 530 students 22 questions that probed several issues including ethnic studies, randomization, self-segregation and admissions. It also asked students to rate their "Harvard experience" and whether race enhances it. The survey claims to reveal a campus that is "significantly divided along racial lines." The results show a demand both for increased Faculty diversity and for commitment from the administration to promoting a multi-cultural environment...