Word: demandingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NBC's Saturday Night Live made fun of Chelsea's hair and braces. The numerous late night talk shows couldn't stop joking about her looks. The culmination of this relentless sarcasm was a cartoon in the Los Angeles Times that viciously mocked her appearance. Thankfully, this cartoon provoked protest...
Born into the Deep South of the 1940s, Lott and Clinton are the sons of demanding moms and alcoholic dads or stepdads. Both were "miracle" children in their mothers' eyes: Clinton was born just after his biological father died in a car wreck; Lott arrived six years after his parents...
The next day, Feb. 28, from which the incident got its name, a crowd demanding justice rallied outside of the governor's office. Police fired into the crowd, killing several people and inciting an uprising that spread across the island.
According to Charles Hsu '96, the protestors were not only demanding justice for the death of the vendor but were also protesting the harsh and corrupt regime.
Meanwhile, the military is demanding a bigger share of the nation's resources. Tens of thousands of officers and hundreds of thousands of soldiers are busily engaged in the pursuit of commercial interests from chicken farms to karaoke bars as part of an almost comical program of self-financing, but...