Word: demanding
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Even more importantly, the President's education proposals would revolutionize America's economy by making the 13th and 14th grades of junior colleges as universal as the bottom 12 have become. Clinton is proving that while big government is dead, active government is still in demand...
...roughly 12-in. by 7-in. cylinder that hangs suspended in a vacuum from magnetic bearings and normally spins at 55,000 r.p.m.; today's cars run at an average of 2,000 r.p.m. The energy of the flywheel is stored in this rapid rotation, which generates electricity on demand. In the Rosens' power train, the flywheel works in conjunction with a gas-driven microturbine to make...
...will be misused to make "perfect babies" by selecting for genetic traits that have nothing to do with disease. Genes have not been found for good looks, high IQ or artistic talent, but if they ever are, prospective parents are sure to want them. PGD is already in demand for sex selection, though doctors refuse to use it unless there is a clear medical reason. For now the technique is being employed to bring healthy children into the world. Whether those children prove to be smart or good looking will still have to depend, at least for the present...
...present we are living in the Age of Popular Demand, because that--more than one man's malleability--is what has shaped national government. The country got the election it sought, befitting a people who are by conviction liberal, by impulse conservative. And it got the President it sought as well--a reflection of the attitudes of the majority and yet as removed from the people as they feel they are from...
...Israeli security, while also carrying forward his predecessor's unfinished negotiations, some terms of which Netanyahu rejects outright. While he strengthened his hand somewhat simply through the symbolism of meeting with Clinton, whose treatment of him has been somewhat chilly, rumors preceeded Netanyahu to Washington that the U.S. had demanded the handshake with Arafat as a condition of the Oval Office chat. Armed with Clinton's promise to help reopen peace talks with Syria, in part through a continuation of Secretary of State Christopher's shuttle diplomacy, Netanyahu appealed to Damascus Monday to remain flexible. While Netanyahu's predecessor Peres...