Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday, led by Undergraduate Council President Joshua D. Liston '95, undergraduates hastily planned a rally outside the Admissions Office at Byerly Hall to demand that the faculty reverse its decision, made last Monday, to rescind its early-admission offer to Grant. The rally is scheduled to start at 2:15 p.m. today...
...does this generation ask for a sign?" an angry Jesus asked, wondering about the hunger for miracles in his own time, though he might as well ask it of ours. Touch me, heal me, the crowds demanded of their Messiah, and so even as he went about touching and healing, he acknowledged that miracles, if produced on demand, could sabotage the faith they were meant to strengthen. For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary; for those who must doubt, no miracle is sufficient...
...Students have to be able to demand a quality of life that isn't filled with these problems," he said...
...supposedly performed by state agencies--for free. In 1993 $1.5 billion in federal funds flowed through the Department of Health and Human Services to 54 local agencies charged with hunting down welshers. Though the state programs corralled a lot of shirkers, they are nowhere near keeping up with demand. Texas is typical: it is now handling more than 800,000 cases, making recoveries in only 18% of them...
...mass consumption, recounting how America evolved from an economy driven by production to one stimulated by consumer spending. The prophet of this change was the British economist John Maynard Keynes, who preached that the way out of the U.S.'s 1937 recession was the triggering of demand, not the revival of investment. This idea was new to the industrial age, which had always followed Say's Law of Markets in asserting that production drove consumption...