Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Protestors from the Eviction Free Zone (EFZ), a grass roots community activist group, parked outside City Hall on Monday morning at 9 a.m. to demand that the city pay more attention to the Cambridge housing crisis...
...kids get older and are likely to demand a little more privacy, some basic technological know-how comes into play. Surprisingly few parents realize how easy it is to find out where their kids have been surfing or to make effective use of simple software that would block access to taboo sites. Dale Berger-Daar, a Chicago early-childhood professional, says she can't check up on her 13-year-old son's activities even if she wants to. "He set the whole computer up," she says. "He can do whatever he wants." Tom Horan, a New Mexico lawyer...
...weight is at least 30% higher than it should be (27% for those with high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes). But this is just a guideline: once a drug has been approved, doctors can prescribe it any way they want. And given Americans' obsession with getting slim, the demand could be enormous. "The reality," says Dr. Steven Heymsfield, deputy director of the Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, "is that millions of people who have tried everything else and are frustrated with their weight will walk into their physician's office...
...When demand exceeds supply for ordinary goods, the price is raised to suppliers in order to induce them to increase the quantities provided," counsels an article by economist and Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker, and the same kind of incentives "would induce more people to allow their organs to be used for transplants after they die." Perhaps state officials read Becker's article before establishing the new policy, which informs the eligible families upon the death of their relatives if they are potential donors. Bereaved families could get to open the mail and read "You may have already...
...overproduced music still retain an artistic impetus, what is hip hop without dancing, is there an establishment to battle against, do women have a greater place in the future of the music making? Many of these issues challenged the traditional fourpart definition of hip hop--and seem to demand some sort of line drawing. It is for this reason that discussions attempting to further define hip-hop for the current burgeoning and outwardly-branching musical movement appear to answer the wrong questions. One can be true to hip hop (exclude those who don't), or the definition...