Word: demanding
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...There's a passive style of learning which large lecture classes like Chem 10 allow, and an active style which Chem 8 and 9 demand," Greene adds. "You can't get by passively in a class as small as Chem...
...help the situation any. Most Harvard students would love to be done with their exams before break, so they can go to Mexico and worry about how to fit the paperback version of The Firm into their suitcase, instead of a 1000-page book with graphs of supply and demand...
...course, the impetus behind this change is not some radical demand by the house governments for more control over their constituents' lives. (Would that it were so.) The reality is more mundane: the usual site for registration, Memorial Hall, is still under construction. And other sites, such as Sever Hall (which was used for fall registration), will be holding classes...
...getting it." But he has shown that he "gets" the basics: that voters are worried about crime, for example, and that they hate to pay taxes. If there's anything major he doesn't "get," it's that in a hyperdemocracy, "getting it" can be self-defeating. The voters demand slavish obedience, but the more they receive it, the less they respect it. Has this sort of disrespect reached such a level as to be actually auspicious for a politician who leads rather than follows? It is hard to say. Few politicians seem inclined to conduct the experiment...
...halt to the fighting. There was no military solution to the crisis, he said, and peace could be agreed on "in a day, in an hour, at the stroke of a pen." But Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, waffled when asked if he would drop his demand for independence and settle for autonomy inside the Russian Federation. First put out the fire, he advised, then decide how to rebuild the house. His plea seemed more a public relations effort to put the onus for the continued bloodshed on Russia than a serious offer of negotiations...