Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...career programs are already growing and new courses are planned in several schools this year. The first reason for this expansion is a simple increase in demand, much of it from overseas...
...this demand for mid-career education has to be done in short seminars because Harvard seeks to put its stamp on the real powerbrokers in business and government--many of whom simply cannot spare the two or three years to earn a Harvard MBA or Master of Public Policy degree...
Harvard officials say they are happy to accommodate this demand as far as funding and faculty schedules will allow. They say professors love to teach mid-career classes because their research comes to them in the form of students who are also experienced professionals...
...agreed to that. When Broder told to Washington Post media harpy Howard Kurtz that he "objected to it on journalistic grounds, on grounds of fairness and because of the way Salon would be perceived," Talbot blew his stack, and Broder was gone. But should Talbot have made such a demand in the first place? The editor says that the magazine was under enough fire as it was -- bomb threats, congressional attacks, press hue and cry -- and that Salon didn't need any more bad press. Come on. Talbot brags about the 400,000 new readers the story netted him, calls...
...onto planes and only afterward told they must endure an hourlong air-traffic delay. Big discount fares are advertised widely, but prices seem to slide up and down with little explanation. Nor will the airlines reveal how many discount seats are allocated on flights (the number varies according to demand for the flight, with the goal of maximizing revenue). And the airlines have drained most of the spontaneity from the nation's leisure-time travel, with those money-saving but anxiety-producing "nonrefundable" fares, which require long advance purchases and slap heavy penalties for even a slight change in plans...