Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard officials said the University supports the professors' refusal because Microsoft's demand threatens academic research...
Photographer Bryan Lee, 28, of Ottumwa, Iowa, entered a living nightmare last spring. His daughter Makenzie, 4, had developed liver cancer, and the only thing that could save her was a new liver. Since the demand for transplantable organs is always greater than the supply, Makenzie had gone on a waiting list--but high up, due to the severity of her condition...
Under this system, though, accidents of geography can create dramatic inequities. A patient who could afford to wait in, say, Dallas might get an organ that could have gone to someone on the brink of death in nearby Fort Worth, Texas. Varying patterns of supply and demand can create tenfold differences in waiting times. According to computer models cited by the government, these inefficiencies cost as many as 300 lives each year. Says John Fung, transplant director at the University of Pittsburgh: "There's no justification to keep the current system...
...elementary school two years in which to rid itself of peanuts. Why? So their three-year-old son, who suffers from a severe allergy to peanuts, won't be exposed to peanut butter, peanut oil or even "peanut dust" when he enters kindergarten in the fall of 2000. This demand for a peanut ban has divided the community and placed school officials in a tough spot. Can't they accommodate this child's disability without depriving everyone else of Planters...
...actions of both President Clinton and Judge Starr are contemptible. It is apparent that the worst of the accusations that one side spins about the other are true. In order to end this political fiasco, we the people should demand the immediate resignation of these two poor excuses for public servants. BENJAMIN J. SCHERLAG Oklahoma City...