Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supreme irony of fate, the death of a young, innocent boy who probably knew little of hate or history spurred the black community to demand its rights. Stephen, who never tried to wound or even threaten his killers, could have been an example of how to bring change peacefully, but, instead, he is now a symbol for a group determined to destroy and condemn...
Local politicians took the opportunity to lambaste Harvard and demand the University adopt a contracting policy modeled on Cambridge's own "Responsible Employer Ordinance" to ensure contractors provide adequate benefits to their workers...
...tremendous boost to the local economy," says Jacque Christofferson. She owns a logging, limousine and liquor company--nobody around here finds that the least bit unusual--and two of the three product lines are in great demand at festival time. "Rod does 40% of his annual liquor sales during the festival." Talk about entrepreneurial genius. Liquor them up, then drive them home...
Just in time too. The recall two weeks ago of Duract, a potent painkiller that also killed a number of patients by causing liver failure, shows just how hard it is to develop an analgesic that's both effective and safe. But the demand for new pain medications is growing. Baby boomers are just starting to hit their arthritis-prone 50s. While the disorder currently afflicts 40 million Americans, the number could reach 60 million in the next two decades...
...festival's daily routine of allowing all comers to run in front of the bulls on their way into the ring is infamous. Less well known, and more controversial, is that once the runners are in the arena, tradition and a bloodthirsty crowd demand that each bull be let back out of the corral for a second crack at the humans. Participants are then expected to whack the beast's behind with a rolled-up newspaper. It is this display, not the initial run, that causes the most reckless injuries: On Monday alone, this correspondent witnessed a young Croatian being...