Word: demanding
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Jewett also answered questions about the likelihood of changing the academic calendar in response to student demand. He said the issue hinges on faculty support for the idea, adding that the probability of reform depends on the specific changes requested by students. For example, some faculty members may not want to start working earlier in the summer, Jewett said...
...humanitites while pushing those eager for a challenge towards the sciences and the social sciences. All areas of inquiry will suffer over the long terms, as students choose their fields according to their personalities, rather than their talents and interests. Because of the laws of supply and demand, rigorous humanities courses will continue to give way to easy ones...
...from a bottom-line perspective. The travel agents contracted by Hoover to supply the service were overwhelmed by the demand. They placed unreasonable conditions on the freebie flights -- expensive extras, inconvenient airports, undesirable departure dates -- that seemed designed to discourage customers from claiming their free tickets. But the uproar from disgruntled Hoover users was so great that Maytag's managers back in the U.S. stepped in and fired three top Hoover executives. Maytag also set up a $30 million fund to pay for the promised flights, which, the company says, would be granted to all those who qualified...
...plans to provide this service to 100 cities within the first year. Time Warner (the parent company of this magazine) is up and running with a 150-channel system in Queens, New York, and early next year will launch an interactive service that will provide video and information on demand to 4,000 subscribers in Orlando, Florida...
...salespeople at bookshops specializing in the occult say despite the academics' skepticism, they have seen no slacking off of demand for astrology books and readings...