Word: demanding
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...meantime, Dante II-type robots should be in hot demand from earthbound volcanologists, 11 of whom have died exploring active craters in the past few years. As for Dante III, or whatever Whittaker calls the next generation, its task will be to spare humans from facing even greater dangers on other worlds...
Consequently neighboring central African countries including Zaire and Burundi have established camps to deal with the influx of refugees; however, conditions in these camps are nightmarish. Food and water are in high demand as the Goma (Zaire) camp consumes nearly 600 metric tons of food and 50,000 gallons of water daily. According to United Nations officials, the present supplies, imported over the 497 mile gauntlet of bandits and renegade militiamen form Entebbe, are grossly inadequate. Moreover, Entebbe seems the only viable airport, as relief operations to Kigali, Rwanda's capital, frequently draw fire from automatic weapons...
...time since then, things haven't got any easier. Such bands as Pearl Jam and Fugazi may be able to maintain their position without submitting to every industry demand for videos or major-label distribution. But for the most part, and with ever greater efficiency, the new is discovered, distributed and disarmed. (Hear that, Seattle; Athens, Georgia; Austin, Texas? Make one new move, and we'll send a planeload of advance scouts.) That in turn makes it harder to come up with much that's new. ("Unless people start wearing lumber," says the performer and fashion watcher Sandra Bernhard, "there...
...hearing in the O.J. Simpson case in Los Angeles last week, Deputy District Attorney William Hodgman waxed indignant. "If the defense wants to go fishing," he complained, "they're going to have to use their own pole and own tackle box." Hodgman was upset over the defense team's demands that the prosecutors turn over a laundry list of records including reports of prowler and burglary calls in the neighborhood of the murder site, records of local unsolved murders, and -- on the chance that Nicole Simpson's dog may have attacked the killer -- records of emergency-room visits...
...surprised if there were an emergency board meeting called over this issue," says an N.A.A.C.P. source who wants Chavis removed. "There should be one, but only Gibson can call it and he won't. The rank-and-file members don't know enough about what's going on to demand a change...