Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these remedies are expensive, and we would demand them if our own children's lives were at stake. And yet we don't demand them for poor children. We wring our hands about the tabloid stories. We castigate the mother. We condemn the social worker. We churn out the familiar criticisms of "bureaucracy" but do not volunteer to use our cleverness to change it. Then the next time an election comes, we vote against the taxes that might make prevention programs possible, while favoring increased expenditures for prisons to incarcerate the children who survive the worst that we have done...
Nearly 50 Cambridge residents gathered last night in freezing temperatures to demand that Harvard divest itself from 700 formerly rent-controlled apartments...
...American girls. After watching the ways in which Jane's brother Samir (Santiago Tapia '97) and Deedee's boyfriend Nader (Andrew Pitcher '97) treat women, the audience is left with the impression that Arab-American men, with few exceptions, are evil: they only want sex from women and yet demand that all Arab women be virgins at marriage. The younger Tarik is seemingly virtuous, but his occasional sexist, over-bearing outbursts in both the past and present prove he should be guilty by association...
Clearly, the need for such an organization is a sign of troubt. There simply is not the public demand, or interest, to support a composer's work; even more than poets and painters, they are creatures of the academy and the foundation. It is possible that it has always been so, that foundations have simply replaced the nobility as sources of patronage. Still, one has the feeling that a hundred years from now, nobody will build a concert hall and put the names of Harbison, Adams and Cage on the frieze...
United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali pledged to honor Rwanda's demand that the U.N. end its two-year peacekeeping mission, which officially expires this Friday. Military forces could be gone within three months. Though millions of Hutu refugees from the losing side of Rwanda's violent civil war fear revenge from victorious Tutsis should they venture home, the Kigali government insists there is no need for an international police force within its borders. That's true up to a point, Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis reports: "The government can provide security for the Tutsis, but there...