Word: demanding
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While we welcome lively debate, we cannot but reject and condemn race baiting and other efforts to belittle, stigmatize, and/or de-legitimize persons whether because of race or because of gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. As no doubt all members of this community demand, we simply expect that debate, about whatever subject, adhere to standards of intellectual honesty and factual accuracy. It is certainly ironic that those persons who champion the cause of standards the loudest are often the ones who make this expectation the most precarious...
Catalog operators, for their part, are facing not just slack demand but also the rising costs of paper and postage this year. L.L. Bean, which experienced a $25 million jump in such expenses, will launch television commercials for the first time in its 83-year history this Christmas to help promote its 800 number. Rival catalog giant Lands' End plans to resist the industry price-cutting trend by holding its prices level with those of last year and offering extras such as free gift boxes and monograms. Says Lands' End president Michael Smith: "If you're selling computers or electronics...
...gadgets like Ricochet, a big-wheeled, radio-controlled car by Hasbro that sells for about $55. Educational cd-rom titles, such as Reader Rabbit and the Encarta encyclopedia, and videogame players like Sony's new 32-bit PlayStation ($300) are also likely to be in big demand this year...
Matching faces to names is a Harvard pastime, thanks to the Freshman Register and the various House facebooks. Student demand for a campus-wide facebook has been high since I've been here, and current technology makes it more feasible than ever...
...must, in other words, demand a peace agreement of the Camp David variety: firm, fixed, accepted without reservation by all sides. At Camp David, the issues were resolved, the lines were hard, the timetables were clear. There was no papering over--and no need for anything resembling the massive ground forces promised by Clinton to implement a Bosnian agreement. Sinai needed nothing more than a token force of binocular-toting observers. It is this kind of treaty--and this kind only--that we should be aiming for at Dayton...