Word: demandingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard continues to demand this level of analytical thinking, but students rarely consider adapting such skills to the musical sphere. During his 30 years in the classical music world, Buswell has learned to do just that...
...managed to keep their economy's recovery on track--slow, perhaps, but definitely better than a recession. How did that happen? The euro's rise, in theory, made European exports far less competitive. But until now that effect seems to have been mitigated by the overall increase in worldwide demand for goods. Exports from Germany, Europe's biggest economy, rose 10% last year, to a record $941 billion, and its trade surplus increased 20%, to $200.3 billion, according to Germany's Federal Statistical Office. Blanqué--who last year asked the world to "be patient with Europe"--says he sees signs...
...second message is less direct - because it relates to areas outside the bank's responsibilities - but goes to the heart of what many observers believe is the country's lethargy about economic reform. During the past three years, demand has run well ahead of supply. After 14 years of output growth, the nation's spare capacity has been used up: there are shortages of skilled workers in a number of industries, particularly construction, and the price of raw materials and wages is rising. For instance, in Queensland electrical workers at Energex and Ergon secured a 31% pay rise over three...
...terms as Lebanon's dynamic Prime Minister, he was careful never to oppose Syria head on. When he was summoned to Damascus last summer to endorse changes in his country's constitution that would allow Lebanon's Syria-controlled puppet President to remain in power, he bowed to the demand despite his strong opposition. When he returned to Beirut with his arm in a white sling, wags joked that he had undergone a painful arm twisting. But some close to Hariri had another explanation: the sling was his theatrical way of signaling his disagreement with Syrian policies. Instead...
...Internet and telephone service. Softbank is not the only triple player in Japan. In late 2003, KDDI added television programming to its Internet access and telephone services, while J-Com, with nearly 2 million subscribers the country's largest cable-TV operator, last month began rolling out video-on-demand to augment the TV, phone and Net access it already provides via digital cable...