Word: demandingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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And what of the future? In most other sports -football, basketball, and golf, for instance -the top professionals all have families, kids, the whole package. In tennis, the unbelievably demanding full-year schedule makes it almost impossible for players to have stable family lives until after they're retired.
It took 29 years, but darn it, the Clean Air Act is finally being enforced. This came as some surprise to seven huge electric companies, all of which were slapped with lawsuits Wednesday. The Environmental Protection Agency charges that the companies defied landmark anti-pollution regulations at their 32 coal...
Several prominent professors, including Warburg Professor of Economics, Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, have joined with over 200 Harvard students in demanding that President Clinton remove all military personnel from the island.
And what does it mean for Achieva to be coming to the rescue of some public schools? It has become routine for schools to hire private companies to do, say, catering and security. But when the seven high schools in San Jose's East Side Union school district contracted with...
Yet we remain perennially susceptible to New Year's Eve's specious allure, annually convinced that next year's shebang may somehow be different. And when it comes to the pathos of impossible expectations, there's never been anything like this: New Year's Eve Y2K. The millennium, baby! The...