Word: demanding
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Since 1978, nominees have had to fill out mind-numbing forms that demand details of everything from teenage drug use to housekeeper taxes, and then submit to separate White House, FBI and Senate investigations, all of which can take several months. Some nominees pre-empt questions themselves: last week CIA director-designate George Tenet asked the Senate to delay his confirmation vote in order to look into investments his father gave him without his knowledge...
...what listing you're after and then giving you the number, and the operator uttering about 4.6 words in between, fewer operators are needed. Even tax-preparation software works that way when accountants themselves use it instead of their old adding machine--the software raises their productivity, thus dampening demand for new accountants. (The use of professionals for tax preparation has so grown in recent decades, though, that you won't see many accountants in breadlines...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt [AMERICAN SCENE, April 28] show him in a wheelchair made me want to scream. Are we building a memorial to a great President or to a distinguished polio victim? If I were famous enough to have a memorial statue, would the hearing impaired of America demand it show me with a hearing aid in each ear? We are fortunate that the protesters don't demand the memorial represent F.D.R. by an empty wheelchair. GEORGE ZINNEMANN Annapolis...
...growth is being propelled by falling prices that put the cost of a machine closer to that of a household appliance. Houston-based Compaq introduced its Presario 2100 for $999 in February. Others have low-priced PCs too. Now the industry is bracing for a quantum leap in demand as people who previously couldn't afford a computer rush to buy one on the notion that one day a PC will be as indispensable as a car or TV. Compaq wanted Gateway so it could speedily add capacity to meet the new demand. But Waitt's vision of the future...
While Kautzman said demand for the magazine was low and she knew of no incidents of theft, other library employees had a different story...