Word: demanding
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John Berger, chief executive of Standard Renewable Energy in Houston, said he expects his company, which helps homeowners make their homes more energy efficient, to nearly quadruple its employees in the next year, in part because of the stimulus bill. Tax credits in the bill have boosted demand for windows and insulation, he said. Berger's company, which had just over 100 employees last fall, plans to hire as many as 300 workers this year...
...will look to augment and explore new risk strategies. “If we don’t learn anything from this crisis, we really should be disappointed with ourselves,” she says.Although the challenge of managing the nation’s most prestigious endowment continues to demand long hours, Mendillo still aims to find time for relaxation, often cooking with her husband and cherishing whatever time she can find with her two teenage children, who currently attend boarding school.“I think one of her favorite things to do is to sit across from each...
...With $143 million left to cut over the next two years, many have begun to demand greater transparency in a process of downsizing that took constituents by surprise in its breadth and magnitude last month...
...lobbying for the creation of a University-wide office that would supervise the grievance process.Meanwhile, a growing list of women began to come forward, with complaints ranged from inappropriate comments to what constituted, according to Government Professor Robert D. Putnam, “a crime.”A DEMAND FOR DISSOCIATIONSeniors in the class of 1984 returned to Harvard in the fall to another shock. Popular Government Professor Jorge I. Dominguez had been implicated in the second sexual harassment scandal in two years—this time, the case involved a junior faculty member and a female graduate student.Unlike...
...Palestinians are continually denied what we want and demand for ourselves—an ordinary life, dignity, livelihood, safety, and a place where they can raise their children—and are forced, yet again, to face the destruction of their families, then the inevitable outcome will be greater and more extreme violence across all factions, both old and increasingly new. What looms is no less than the loss of entire generation of Palestinians. And if this happens—perhaps it already has—we shall all bear the cost...