Word: demanding
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...odds against achieving full modernization without losing political control are daunting. The party's one remaining claim to legitimacy rests on its ability to deliver sustained economic growth and rising incomes. Once people are rich and fat enough, they begin to demand a say in their own governance. What no one can predict is how long China can continue to achieve economic advances without modifying--or being forced to modify--its repressive political system...
With the boomers leading the way, the demand for stock has soared in the face of a dwindling number of shares--a textbook prescription for prices to head north. Investors pumped more than $220 billion into stock mutual funds in 1996, nearly double the $128 billion registered in 1995. The bulk of the new money represents "patient" capital from boomers saving up for retirement, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual-fund-industry trade group. And the trend keeps getting stronger. Some $24 billion of fresh money flowed into stock mutual funds in January, double the amount...
Because of the high demand for the hour-long sessions, however, UHS advises undergraduates to consider the chair massage option...
According to Keli Ballinger, who works in the health education office, demand for the massages has risen dramatically of late, prompting one therapist to take on an additional day of work...
...demand side, things aren't looking much better. In an article in the March 3 edition of The New Republic, Stephen Glass wrote an article lambasting the D.A.R.E. program. D.A.R.E., the only drug education program that is specifically approved for funding by the federal Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, has become the mainstay of our country's anti-drug training. The program receives $750 million in funding, $600 of which come from the government. The program now services 70 percent of the nation's school districts...