Word: demanding
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...Lauro Halstead, director of the postpolio program at the National Rehabilitation Hospital and a polio survivor. "A motor neuron is no different. Neurons that normally drive 20 muscle cells in the polio patient may now have to supply up to 2,000 muscle cells. Basically, this is a demand that the motor nerves are not designed to sustain...
...nerve cells in order to design exercise regimens tailored to each patient's particular weaknesses. The approach is almost the exact opposite of "use it or lose it." Says Dr. Jacquelin Perry, director of the pathokinesiology center at the Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center in California: "By decreasing the demand on these overworked neurons, we can extend their life...
...Harding's hearing, scheduled to begin June 27. Though the group can no longer impose its harshest penalty -- Harding has already resigned under duress -- it can still strip Harding of the national title she earned two days after the assault on Kerrigan. It could also demand a refund of the tens of thousands of dollars the association provided for training. The U.S. Olympic Committee might also demand reimbursement for training expenses and strip Harding of the commemorative items given to her in Lillehammer. There's even speculation that the committee may strike Harding's name from the 1994 U.S. Olympic...
...writer, retracing ground covered by a classic of history or biography can be daunting. Who today wants to go one-on-one against Boswell or Gibbon? To be sure, the masters made errors that demand correction, and archaeology and archives can provide illuminating new data. But fresh facts are often double-edged: they are as likely to create new uncertainties about the past as they are to resolve old problems. That leaves the modern writer hemming and hawing where his predecessor made magisterial pronouncements...
...Market demand drives poaching, and activists such as Sam LaBudde of the Earth Island Institute in San Francisco argue that the current crisis exposes the shortcomings of old-line conservation efforts. "The failure to address market demand means that tens of millions of dollars invested in past efforts to save the tiger have amounted to little more than a colossal subsidy for the Chinese traditional-medicine market," says LaBudde. Others point out that environmental groups have in fact achieved notable successes by attacking demand. Pressure on the fashion industry in the West, for instance, helped halt precipitous declines in spotted...