Word: demanding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does not enjoy financial support from the administration and instead works within the necessarily restricted allocation from the UC. Unfortunately, these constraints are irrelevant to the artists with whom we negotiate. Artists expect inordinately high fees simply because Harvard has a $27 billion endowment, and they enjoy such high demand that their availability changes on an hourly basis.The HCC must respond to their inflated prices quickly or risk losing out on opportunities. This shapes our artist selection process—the single most difficult part of our job.Consulting tour data, name recognition, and our counterparts at other colleges...
...applications for the class of 2004 to 6,552 applications for the class of 2007. Aisner attributed the decrease in applications to the fallout from the internet boom. “The number of applications received for 2004 was probably an aberration, it was the pent up demand after the internet boom so that is probably too high a watermark,” said Aisner. “Now we are seeing more of a return to normalcy with the number of applications being in the 6000-7000 range.” The admission rate to Harvard Business School...
...their general education requirements. Students will be required to take three courses in each of the two areas furthest from their concentration, but may choose whatever three courses they wish within a given area.“The idea is to let the market decide—both student demand and faculty supply,” said Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, a member of the Committee on General Education.The report recommends that students continue to take courses in analytic reasoning, quantitative analysis, and in moral reasoning, but does not require that they...
...There is a demand on campus for people to have fun at Harvard-Yale,” Owusu-Kesse said. “This is a great opportunity to really bring the entire student body together...
...Needs Brains When You Have These?” shirt. (Guess where the slogan was located on the garment.) Of course, the “girl-cotters” had every right to refuse to buy clothing items that they found to be of bad taste, but their demand that Abercrombie discontinue producing these t-shirts was contrary to the spirit of free enterprise. Young women—the very people whom the “girl-cott” was meant to protect—were buying the t-shirts in droves. That the shrill opinion of 23 teenage...