Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Silbert says that despite the major switch tocomputers that took place between five and eightyears ago, her company still does strong businessin the typewriter trade. She says Fall brought aheavy demand for business this year, with morethan two dozen typewriters sold just in the lastmonth...
...different things to different people. But in spite of the imperfectly defined subject matter, the discussion was a success because each panelist gave his or her own definition of feminism at the outset and a uniform opinion emerged--that at its most basic level, feminism is the expectation or demand that women be viewed as equal to men in the eyes of the law and of society...
...limb and expand the basic definition of feminism to which everyone at the panel agreed. Yes, feminism is the demand that women be treated as equal to men. But true feminism is ultimately the humanistic goal that everyone be treated equally in society. We all have a profound stake in the realization of that goal...
First built in 1945, before the age of TV advertising, the Citgo ad campaign was intended to dazzle the customer with its homage to the Las Vegas strip in seedy Kenmore Square. In 1979, however, an energy crisis loomed and the city had no choice but to demand that the Citgo Corporation pull the plug on the neon masterpiece. As it lay idle for the next four years, Kenmore Square residents frequently referred to the unlit metal structure as the "eyesore of the community." They saw the sign as "reminiscent of a time when Kenmore Square was sleazy and seedy...
...CONCERNED PARENTS DEMAND REMOVAL OF ARSENIC FROM PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS("'Our schoolchildren, some as young as the fourth grade, are being exposed to this deadly element in their science classes...