Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Demand for tickets to The Game was so strong that, for the first time since Harvard football's heyday of the 1920s, the Harvard Athletic Association (HAA) limited students to two tickets apiece...
...first time since Bakke, academics are circling their wagons and starting to question the premises they have held for years so as to provide the answers skeptics demand...
...YORK CITY: Intel's prediction of weaker-than-expected second quarter earnings sent the stock plunging in early trading Friday, dragging many other tech-stocks with it. Citing surprisingly weak demand for its microprocessor chips, Intel suffered a 14.5 percent drop in morning trading on the Nasdaq exchange. By the end of trading, the stock made up more than half its loss, finishing down $12.27 at $151.50 "Investors have a tendency to oversell and overbuy stocks when there is especially good or bad news," said Charles Boucher, an analyst at New York-based UBS Securities. "On a negative announcement from...
...McDonald's has pushed hard to increase the number of stores on the theory that the company would collect more royalties based on increased overall sales. The price for franchisees has been a cannibalization and revenue decline in existing stores when new stores are built nearby. Greenberg counters that demand for new restaurants among existing franchisees remains strong, and that McDonald's program for compensating for the impact of new outlets is so exemplary that the state of Iowa adopted it as the model for new franchisee protection legislation...
...little wonder, then, that educators worry about meeting the growing demand for teachers without drastically lowering the quality of teaching by hiring untrained recruits. In California more than 16,000 teachers were hired this year to accommodate state-initiated class-size reductions. Barbara Burch, former president of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, has warned that unless the lesson plan for teachers is revised, "it is increasingly clear that we are indeed a profession at risk...