Word: demanding
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...demand for the Black Students Association (BSA) President Kristen Clarke '97's retraction or resignation. The Crimson has outlandishly overstepped its boundaries as a newspaper ("Clarke Should Retract Statements." Opinion, Nov. 4, 1994). While The Crimson can and should espouse opinions about campus organizations, it has no right to intervene in internal organizational politics by calling for the resignation of a campus leader. The only people who should demand the resignation of an organization's leader are the members themselves...
Dorm crew employee Jake R. Murrow '97 said twice as many vacuum cleaners as usual were checked out yesterday. He said he expects even heavier demand for them tomorrow...
...installed this summer to replace the old husc computers, which couldn't keep up with anticipated demand. HASCS has continued to fix, or "tweak," fas in an effort to improve performance. The patch, the most involved tweak yet, altered the program on fas that controls logging in. Previously, the program was not quitting correctly...
...itself in a vulnerable position because, at least temporarily, it is lagging behind in the perennial game of technological leapfrog. Nearly every major cable company is developing sophisticated new fiber-optic technology that will ultimately deliver hundreds of channels and permit full interactivity -- enabling viewers to order programs on demand, buy merchandise at the touch of a button and "talk back" to the set in a host of other ways. But this much vaunted technology is still years away from nationwide operation. For now, most cable customers must settle for 40 or 50 channels of traditional programming, technology that...
...aggressive new competition will provide an incentive for cable companies to improve service and hold down what they can charge. As for the long term, much depends on how quickly cable can deliver on the long- promised, fully interactive 500-channel universe. If it takes too long -- or consumer demand for such futuristic services turns out to be less than anticipated -- cable's rivals may succeed in grabbing a significant portion of the business. "Cable talks about the information highway," says Neal Bobrick, sales vice president of Soundtrack, an electronics chain that sells dishes. "But we are here right...