Word: demanding
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...homemade wooden crutches hobbled amid hordes of kerchiefed old women in knitted vests as children shouted and played. Other thousands camped along the roadsides. Workers for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees put up temporary shelters and passed out food, but they were unable to keep up with the demand as refugees kept streaming in. Perhaps 3,000 younger men from Srebrenica, many of them Bosnian government soldiers, had fled into the woods and dodged the Serb invaders, and some made their way to Tuzla...
...between Republicans and Democrats. It's the G.O.P. standoff that has kept a welfare-reform bill even from reaching the Senate floor, where it was supposed to have been debated this week. For the most dedicated conservatives, a bill that penalizes out-of-wedlock pregnancy is a non-negotiable demand. And for them Burke is the obstacle...
...documents, which were obtained by University of California at San Francisco researchers largely through anonymous sources, have already been publicized over the past year. But doctors hope repetition will arouse the public to demand action, including bans on all cigarette advertising, tobacco exports and industry contributions to scientists and politicians. Any such action seems unlikely in the current antiregulatory political climate. House Speaker Newt Gingrich's comment on the FDA proposals was that the agency had "lost its mind." President Clinton guardedly endorsed stronger controls on smoking by youths, but stressed that he had not yet seen the new report...
Memories of concrete facts and events, which can in principle be retrieved on demand, are coordinated through the hippocampus, a crescent-shaped collection of neurons deep in the core of the brain. Other sorts of memory are handled by other areas. The amygdala, for example, an almond-size knot of nerve cells located close to the brain stem, specializes in memories of fear; the basal ganglia, clumps of gray matter within both cerebral hemispheres, handle habits and physical skills; the cerebellum, at the base of the brain, governs conditioned learning (as when Pavlov's dogs salivated at the ringing...
...Washington, Bosnia's foreign minister declared the U.N. peacekeeping mission "at an end" and said the Muslim government would demand the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers unless contributing nations agreed to confront Serb rebels in combat. That's roughly what France has proposed to do, to the chagrin of Britain and other partners who fear the plan is brash and unrealistic. Even so, one European Union official told TIME's Jay Branegan at a meeting of European foreign ministers today that French and British positions "are becoming closer." And yet: "The British want to see a very detailed plan...