Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SUPER-UPLIFT bra -- a high-tech, cleverly marketed 90's version of the old-fashioned push-up bra -- was introduced two months ago with a torrent of hype. Demand, however, has not been uniformly distributed...
Despite the whiny Harvard rhetoric, the fast food question really boils down to one thing: simple Ec 10 supply and demand. Students are sick and tired of Peking ravioli. A Mcanything would be wonderful...
Other pilot projects are primarily technology trials. In GTE's TV trial in Cerritos, California, for example, engineers tested a video-on-demand system using VCRs preloaded with tapes that allowed viewers to pause, fast-forward and rewind from remote locations. But to keep the technology and cost manageable, the service was made available only to two homes and a pair of elementary schools...
What really matters, of course, is what people want to see on their TV sets and how much they are willing to pay. The preliminary results in this regard have not been encouraging. Video-on-demand is billed as the best reason to get interactive television. But TCI reports that subscribers using its video-on- demand test trial in Colorado are ordering an average of 2.5 movies a | month. That's probably fewer videos than many U.S. families rent each week...
...reticence: "There are writers who have a need for the explicit and confrontational. When I read John Updike describing sex, it just makes me uncomfortable. I would think that anyone who has seriously read my work could come up with a sense of my interests. But I resent the demand of our times that one is compelled to provide the Polaroids of intimate moments. People make commitments to be a part of your life without committing to being in your works...