Word: demanding
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...Brock Yates, the curmudgeonly columnist for Car and Driver, questions the demand for this technological gimcrackery by suggesting that consumers can be dumb about smart devices. "For a nation that can't program its vcrs," he says, "I wouldn't want to imagine a future where people will be expected to operate a 4,000-lb. smart car propelling them down the highway at 65 m.p.h." Besides, says Yates, "the auto is the last bastion of personal freedom in the U.S. It promises enormous flexibility. This smacks of Big Brotherism. I don't want 'HAL' inside my dashboard telling...
...success in education to success in the "real world," a tie that many students do not or do not want to see. We must convince parents that the best way to get kids to care about school, aside from encouraging them at home, is to give them teachers who demand nothing less than their best--and to find those teachers, we must give them the salaries they deserve...
Still, varsity athletics demand so much time ofa student that even the prestigious RhodesScholarship competition to study at Oxford aftergraduation has toned down its once-stringentsports requirement...
...protect a woman's right to abortion are not enough.'' Your biases are disturbingly evident. Surely what must be safeguarded in the climate of violence surrounding the abortion issue is the right to human life itself, the very right that has been denigrated by those who promote abortion on demand...
...strongholds, the settlement of Guadalupe Tepeyac, Tacho praised Zedillo for the sincerity of his efforts. ``The most important factor,'' said the rebel, ``was that he sent his Interior Minister as his direct representative. That shows he's taking the problem seriously.'' The Zapatistas are relatively confident that their prime demand will be met: the removal from office of Eduardo Robledo, the p.r.i. governor whose August election--in the same balloting that elected Zedillo--was deemed fradulent by the rebels. With Zapatista backing, the losing p.r.d. candidate, Amado Avendano, has already been installed as symbolic head of a ``government in rebellion...