Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when he started a magazine called Student and brashly talked the likes of John le Carre, James Baldwin and Vanessa Redgrave into contributing articles or being interviewed. Student was short lived, largely because the young proprietor spotted, in the number of ads for mail-order records, a demand among young British music lovers for cut-rate disks. Mail order led to the Virgin name (they were young and inexperienced) and a small store, which led to the Virgin record label, which led to more than 100 companies with 11,000 employees in 17 countries...
...business, run by large hmos and managed-care groups with a keen eye on the bottom line. Medical businessmen are more likely than are scientifically trained doctors to view prayer and spirituality as low-cost treatments that clients say they want. "The combination of these forces--consumer demand and the economic collapse of medicine--are very powerful influences that are making medicine suddenly open to this direction," observes Andrew Weil, a Harvard-trained doctor and author of Spontaneous Healing...
Harvard should require music appreciation, and it should require art appreciation. it should demand that students take two courses, or it should create an all-encompassing course that includes all of the arts. Harvard students are graduating without knowing anything about art or anything about music, and even in cases where they have learned one of the two solidly, their knowledge is often restricted to one architect or five great pieces. Forget about the "methods and approaches to knowledge" clause in the description of the Core. Let us focus instead on tangible pieces of music, solid hulks of sculpture, well...
Columbia's size allows it to demand deep discounts from suppliers. The company's doctors, for example, have been encouraged to buy hospital gowns from a single source for a 20% saving. And according to Graef Crystal, who tracks CEO pay, Scott's 1995 salary of $858,000 was 20% less than the rate in his league (though his Columbia shares are worth $6.9 million). "You know if you've been in the hospital that you don't like the process," says Scott, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. "We focus on how we can make it enjoyable...
...different from Dole," says TIME's James Carney. "He is a creature of the House that Newt Gingrich built and as a result we will see more unity between the Senate and the House. He will be clued in to what the House is doing and more able to demand moderation when he feels the Senate is unlikely to pass a piece of legislation." At the same time, there's a pragmatic streak behind his firebrand conseravtism. By Tuesday, Carney reports, he had sewn up the GOP vote with the support of Republican moderates. Lott's ascension will mark...