Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children, we might have been jealous of Kelly O'Grady. But as adults, our admiration for her is twinged, not with jealousy but with pity. Certain kinds of performances demand skills that do require training at the age of three. The problem is that the champion involved has little or no choice about whether he or she actually wants to become a champion...
...place in the public eye is now more prominent than it has ever been, at least partly because cable networks and Internet news sources have increased the demand for pundits and commentators...
...Farulla, a manager at The Wrap & SmoothieJoint on Mount Auburn St., thinks that Cafe Gaiawill increase the demand for smoothies in thisarea...
...losses. Toshiba's $53.6 million pretax loss in the first half of fiscal '98 compared with a $212 million profit for the same period last year; Hitachi lost $1.04 billion compared with a $204 million profit in the equivalent period last year. "These companies will bleed as long as demand at home and in Asia remains weak," says TIME senior business reporter Bernard Baumohl. And therein lies Japan's vicious cycle: The bursting of the country's banking and real estate bubble created a credit crunch throughout Asia, and the consequent financial turmoil shrank markets for Japanese products -- eating into...
...more girls are turning to an injectable form of birth control known as Depo-Provera. A hormone-based drug that works principally by blocking ovulation, it is the contraceptive of choice for 8% of white teens seeking birth control and 19% of blacks. This is a relatively modest demand compared to that for birth-control pills, but it's a stampede for a drug that wasn't even available in the U.S. until...