Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Armini said demand for the program was considerable, fueled entirely by word-of-mouth...
...difficult to imagine the chaos if students were allowed an endless array of such opt-out privileges. Culturally offended by Chinese language instruction? Philosophically opposed to scientific research on animals? Concerned about Harvard's financial investments in oil companies? Demand a refund of whatever insignificant portion of your fees support these endeavors! At modern universities like Harvard with their hands in every educational pot--what former U.C. Berkeley Chancellor Clark Kerr referred to as the "multiversity"--opt-out schemes become terribly infeasible...
...that the sort of opt-out schemes that may result from the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling would bring chaos to termbills, all in the name of suspicious free-speech claims. I share the Wisconsin students' aversion to thought control, but the special character of university student life may demand a more sophisticated response than checkoff programs...
...position of strength," says Dowell. The temptation for Milosevic to pursue a "peace offensive" would be strengthened by the limits on NATO's options. Despite discussing protecting Kosovar Albanians in an autonomous zone, the alliance remains loath to fight its way in. A ground invasion of Kosovo would demand more than 100,000 troops, and would inevitably involve extensive casualties. "If Milosevic stopped his offensive, withdrew some of his forces and opened dialogue on a peace plan that would allow NATO to save face, that would likely be an attractive option to at least some of NATO," says Dowell. Indeed...
...20th century has made science more exacting. We demand more of its explanations. To say that the earth goes around the sun is no longer sufficient; we insist on knowing why. And in some fields--space research, for example--decades can go by while novel instruments are designed and built. A further complication is that every discovery provokes new questions. The more we know, the more we do not know...