Word: demanding
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Moreover, the shuttle's impact on cab demand may be less significant than some believe. Cambridge's poor are more likely to rely on the Boston area's public transportation system than on taxi service. The elderly can still call cabs for door-to-door service. And plenty of people will continue to prefer the immediate availability of a cab to waiting for a shuttle or calling for one in advance...
...overall reason that the staff supports unions is that it identifies their self-interest with its own. This is a mistaken and hypocritical calculation, for if the unions are, by the staff's minds, allowed to demand increased wages or better conditions at the expense of students, why should not students favor lower or stagnant wages at the expense of unions...
...murder ring, the arrest of a former minister for the Mafia-style political assassination of a rival, official corruption and bribery, all topped off by law-enforcement bungling on a grand scale. Public anger and disgust are so high that when citizens' groups last month organized a demonstration to demand a government clean-up, silent, white-clad protesters numbering 300,000--fully 3% of the country's population--thronged the streets of Brussels...
...Jane Hamilton's 1989 novel, The Book of Ruth, a stark, hardscrabble account of the life of a farm woman. The book has sold 8,000 copies in hardback and an additional 85,000 in paper, but the publishers are gearing up for what they hope is the inevitable demand: Houghton Mifflin has printed 50,000 new hardcovers, and Doubleday, which controls paperback rights, has ordered a new press...
Despite the competition from the council, James T. Wall, general manager for U.S. Shuttle, said he does not expect demand for the shuttle to decrease...