Word: demanding
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Although Buell said the appointments were "notdesigned as replacements or equivalents" to thethree junior faculty who have announced plans toleave Harvard, he said the department's selectionsaimed to strengthen the areas in which the currentFaculty could not meet student demand...
Based on this precedent, hopefully the Faculty Council will soon begin to consider taking some action to change the creative writing program and accommodating the huge and still-growing interest there. The overwhelming majority of students who apply are being turned away. As Feldstein might say, there's a demand. We're just waiting for the supply that should logically follow. Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan '02, a Crimson editor, lives in Holworthy Hall...
...real growth in 2000. "After being pessimistic about Japan for four or five years," says Courtis, who is based there, "I would give their economic management an A." The government is finally priming the pump in earnest: $550 billion to recapitalize banks, $250 billion to stimulate domestic demand, and "I'll bet you see another $250 billion this year...
Thailand, Korea and Indonesia have stopped reforming their banks and other instruments of "crony capitalism," says Courtis, but are still managing to claw back toward growth by a simple strategy: "You crush domestic demand, you crush your currency, so imports collapse and everything goes to the export sector." A year ago, he explains, Korea had zero foreign exchange reserves; today it has $48 billion, equal to 12% of GNP. Thailand's are at 11% of GNP. But this strategy depends crucially on boosting exports to developed countries, particularly the U.S., which will hang on choices made in Washington...
...inquiring into whatever excites his prurient curiosity--and all without visible accountability. Starr usurped congressional prerogatives when instead of following Leon Jaworski's Watergate precedent of submitting his findings in a neutral form and allowing the House of Representatives to make its own judgment, he shaped them into a demand for impeachment. From compliant judges he obtained rulings that turn White House lawyers, aides and even Secret Service personnel into potential informers for any independent counsel. There is no one in the White House with whom Presidents will be able to discuss confidential problems without fear of subpoena (except...