Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First-year seminars are not the only places for first-years to develop relationships with fellow students and professors. Sections and smaller classes also demand the academic responsibility that I had hoped to live without. The first-year seminar program offers unique opportunities, ones which should be improved and made available to all first-years...
...people have unless they're members of a professional sports team or Keenen Ivory Wayan's all-woman house band. So the record company turned to music-video director Hype Williams. Over the past year or so, Williams--his real first name is Harold--has become the most in-demand music-video director going; his clips boast a sensuous palette of colors, and, most important, they tend to get heavy play...
...hyperterrific returns in all sorts of economic weather. While most investors bet on the broader market or particular stocks, wealthy clients want to protect their pile by "hedging" their risk with funds that adjust to economic conditions as fast as the market changes. With stocks teetering at record highs, demand for that sort of insurance is blossoming. The best hedge funds have become as exclusive as Augusta National, and hot managers are the rock stars of the investing world. Among the sexiest: George Soros, whose Quantum Fund has tallied a 33% annual return historically, vs. 7% for stocks; and Julian...
...punctuated three years of complaints by blacks and Hispanics that police abusiveness was out of control. It was not the kind of endorsement Giuliani, usually outspoken in his support of police, needed or wanted in an election year. And he was swift to describe the incident as repulsive and demand that justice be served...
...Palestinian President, who is seeking to regain credibility in the wake of corruption charges, is not going to have an easy time uniting his people. Hamas continues to demand that Arafat release prisoners arrested after four 1996 suicide bombings...