Word: demanding
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...liberal arts colleges and universities such as Harvard reconcile the dilemma between the seeming impracticality of a liberal arts education and the demand for specialized skills in an work force ever more technologically complex? Can they convince the rest of the country (and humanities majors' parents, who wonder just what that $100,000 tuition is going toward) that a humanistic education is valuable even though it does not create ready-made employees? Or must liberal arts schools resign themselves to strictures of practicality and subscribe to the principle of "operational utility," defined by Michael R. Harris as a mandate implying...
Economic theory holds that in a perfectly competitive industry, no effort will need to be expended to sell the product. The supply will be equivalent to the demand, and the work of the market would simply be to match up buyers and sellers. Advertising, window dressing and product differentiation are all unknown to the wheat market, for instance, which is the closest thing to perfect competition in United States. Time Warner and other media conglomerates, however, see effort not simply as part of their business but as their whole business. We may conclude that they have a high degree...
...want to see the institution of gender equality, and to that end, the council should focus attention on the safety and academic concerns of women on campus. We want to deal with competent advising, counseling and health care services, a demand that includes better and increased staffing. We want to retain our privacy in these areas; the council is right to insist on anonymous HIV testing, secure computer records and closed personal files. Finally, we want to see Harvard be socially responsible in its investments (get out of Nigeria!) and in its consumption (we hail Coke's return to soda...
...Russian Ministry of Defense had cooked up a plan out of profound frustration. According to one colonel, they first intended to intercept President Boris Yeltsin's motorcade as it traveled to the Kremlin along Znamenka Street, where their headquarters is located. Then, with Yeltsin trapped, they would demand their salaries, which had not been paid for several months, and tell him "to his face what we think about how he has destroyed the armed forces," as the colonel...
After the image tune-up, Yeltsin tried for a while to defend his record, and the indexes of progress he listed were accurate: lower inflation, significant hard-currency reserves, a generally more open, demand-driven economy. When citing his achievements did not improve his standing, Yeltsin argued that the corner has been turned on austerity. "The most difficult period is over," he said as recently as last month. "We have survived. Don't lose hope." Each time he used that line, he was booed...