Word: demanding
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...refusing to appear in court until he resigned. That is how they should treat Justice Clarence Thomas. He is unfit to serve. Several of Anita Hill's former colleagues have corroborated her allegations of Thomas' sexual harassment. As a feminist, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should be the first to demand Thomas' resignation from the court. Male Justices will be reluctant to blow the whistle on Thomas because they may be guilty of similar sexual harassment...
...negotiations stretch on, the key obstacle remains Syria's demand that Israel return the strategic Golan Heights captured in the 1967 war. Critics view the price as too high, and even those who support a peace accord are loath to relinquish the Golan. Who would feel safe in the U.S. capital if just across the Potomac River an enemy force occupied a 9,000-ft.-high plateau in northern Virginia...
What the House Master did demand, however, was that certain particularly graphic works be taken down after the reception, and that these works--a mere fraction of the exhibit--not be displayed with the rest for the next two weeks in the House Mezzanine area...
Challenging popular conceptions of welfare recipients as not wanting to work, Latimer said he had seen an overwhelming demand for job training courses from welfare mothers. "People want to be self-sufficient," he said...
That was in 1937. Since then, this country has begun to look beyond Fannie Farmer and meatloaf; cook books and gourmet shops have proliferated; chefs are in great demand. At its worst, this trend has spawned yuppie cuisine and a surfeit of goat cheese, but despite these excesses there is something to be said for eating well. And much has been said, particularly by Fisher, by California chef Alice Waters, and by my personal idol Julia Child--each of whom is paid tribute in Joan Reardon's recent book, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures...