Word: demanding
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...agree that poor students deserve private school-quality education, we should work to make the public schools equal to the private schools. Like the very best private schools in this country and many of the academies in other countries, we should demand that our public school teachers be well-versed in their subjects. More, if not all, public school teachers should have advanced degrees. We might also consider some of the other substantive proposals floating around, such as national exams and standardized curricula. For when all the talk has settled down, and the pundits have gone to bed, these...
When Jackson was wheeled into the institute, Dr. Aryeh Shander, chief of anesthesiology and critical-care medicine, and his team moved swiftly. First, they essentially paralyzed the patient with drugs to reduce the demand for oxygen by his muscles, brain, lungs and other organs. Next, they gave him high-potency formulations of iron supplements and vitamins, plus "industrial doses" of a blood-building drug, synthetic erythropoietin, that stimulates the bone marrow to produce red blood cells. Finally, intravenous fluids were administered to goad what little circulation he had left...
These three cops are the backbone of "L.A. Confidential." Their jobs demand that they be mired in filth and degradation, and they have not escaped untarnished. White sees violence against women and turns to a brutal brand of justice. Vincennes busts celebrity drug users and comes to seek the spotlight himself. Exley is enamored with the established system and is seduced by the power that it wields. All three men have been infected by the underworld in which they must exist...
Still, McCaffery believes, small investors will have their day. "If you create more demand," he says, "you should have an impact on price." If 10,000 Little Guys keep collectively offering $14 for IPOs whose syndicates are offering $12, wouldn't IPO candidates start urging their underwriter to give small investors a place at the table? And might not these populist wrinkles--Wit plans to sell similar venture-capital shares in pre-IPO start-ups--affect numerous deals down the line, shifting profits from bankers to entrepreneurs and the masses, perhaps even changing the way whole industries get financed? Might...
...Strong economy. With unemployment low and concerns about corporate job cutting abated, consumer confidence is high. Demand for housing is bursting at the seams. Luxury builder Toll Bros. recently posted record quarterly earnings, revenues, signed contracts and back orders. Through July, existing homes were selling at a record annual rate of more than 4 million. Much of the activity is baby boomers' trading up to bigger houses, a trend that N.A.R. economist Fred Flick says will persist. So there's no reason to expect house prices to lose out to inflation in the foreseeable future...