Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pair undergraduate women with alumnae around the nation and scholars at Harvard-Radcliffe, Radcliffe fosters an environment of learning and support. Radcliffe has proven to be very efficient in implementing these programs over the last decade. The enrollment in these programs has steadily increased over time, attesting to the demand for them within the student body and their importance. If Harvard were providing the same types of programs, the same level of quality and cross-generational experience from which many women benefit at Radcliffe, then we could all agree that Radcliffe had finally achieved its goal and should pass...
...other petrochemicals) follow suit. Car buyers, with the incentive of bottom-dollar gasoline, snatch up large, gasoline-inefficient automobiles-particularly sport utility vehicles-in increasing numbers. John Schutz, Nissan's director of research and development, said on CNN Interactive, "As long as gasoline is cheap, there will be demand for gas guzzlers." This, of course, encourages auto makers to produce SUVs, which they've done in ever-increasing numbers...
These two factors--unquenchable domestic demand for gasoline and access to foreign oil--work synergistically together and, unchecked, have become inordinately important in the U.S. agenda. As gasoline prices fall and the sale of inefficient autos increases, demand for cheaper gasoline increases and so the government not only allows, but must support importation and exploration abroad...
...branches, leads the way in developing fuel cell engines--engines which use hydrogen gas as fuel and could produce little more than water as waste. These projects, although showing far more promise than ever before, remain on the fringe of the notoriously conservative auto industry because of the low demand that coincides with low gas prices...
...store has shifted to upscale and "pretty"merchandise, according to Slate, in response tocustomer demand...