Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff's notion that Brown and Harvard are somehow limiting access to women's athletics is ridiculous and insulting. The amount of people at any level of athletics is merely a function of demand; the opportunities exist for all women to participate, if they so choose...
Today the government wants Harvard to have a ROTC program. Who knows what the government will want in the future? Ten years down the road it may demand that all Harvard students take four semesters of Expository Writing, or that all administrators come to work in hot pink jumpsuits. If the current situation continues, there is no doubt that Harvard will have to comply...
Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara brushed off a demand by the commander of the American Legion that he donate all royalties from his new autobiographical "confessions" of error in Vietnam to veterans' causes. "If Secretary McNamara is sincere about atoning for sending Americans into a war he knew they couldn't win, then he shouldn't profit financially from this sad, tragic, late confession," said William Detweiler, leader of the 3.1-million member veterans' group. McNamara's replied (through publisher Times Books) that he'd prefer to make any charitable contributions "privately...
...Democrats. They have sought consolation in the thought that Republicans, having harnessed the new populism to their own ambitions, might now, in turn, become its victims. Republicans are now the political establishment. And when they fail to deliver the impossible combination platters that the new populism seems to demand-lower taxes and a balanced budget without any cuts in middle-class benefit checks, guaranteed health care without any limits on choice, superpower status without any risk of American blood or treasure-the populist conflagration will swallow them up too. But will that delicious moment arrive? Or has populism peaked...
Baseball fans are left with a season of 144 games per club, instead of the usual 162; players will find much less demand for their services, and some small-market teams, like the Expos and Kansas City Royals, have already upset the competitive balance by conducting clearance sales. Says Paul Beeston, president of the (still) defending world champion Toronto Blue Jays: "While it's nice to be back, this is a less-than-ideal situation. The worst thing is that we still don't have a deal. The best thing is that we have done such irreparable harm...