Word: demanding
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HUDS uses the data to measure "patron velocity"-in other words, to get an accurate picture of how many students are eating in a given location at a given meal. Then, it modifies the number of meals prepared to best reflect the demand...
Says the older Pettigrew: "We have learned to take measures to insure against a downturn by choosing investments that will fall back into demand the most quickly as the market recovers, or ones that can be paid off fully within the first lease agreement...
...Milosevic had earlier ordered the chief U.S. monitor, William Walker, out of the country after Walker blamed the Serbs for a massacre of 45 Albanians. Despite threatening air strikes, NATO is reluctant to act because the fundamental political problem -- the Albanians' demand for independence and the Serbs' refusal to grant even the limited autonomy favored by the West -- remains unresolved. "The KLA rebels are spoiling for a new fight, and Milosevic wants to scrap the cease-fire he agreed to last year," says Calabresi. "Everybody's now seen that the West is loath to intervene, so all the pieces...
...During at least five of those years I followed the German press fairly regularly. All I ever learned about his family--already more than I cared to--was that he had two sons. The lack of supply of such news is at least partly due to a lack of demand. French President Francois Mitterand was known to have been sexually enterprising, but when Paris Match disclosed that he had a daughter from one of his mistresses, the magazine's sales plunged...
...interactivity with PBS's web site as well as the ability to decide when your child's favorite shows air on your set. Of course, since tie-in videos are currently available for most children's shows, and few toddlers are shy about asking for them incessantly, Barney-on-demand is already a reality with which most parents are familiar...