Word: demandingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"It's an honor to have been selected for this demanding post," Huppe said in August. "I'm very excited about coming to Cambridge."
Faced with stiff opposition from both the right and the left, Senate majority leader Bob Dole reluctantly put off action on the G.O.P. leadership's much touted welfare-reform plan (which has already passed the House). Conservative Republicans, including rival presidential aspirant Phil Gramm, are demanding tougher provisions penalizing unwed...
A young Texas lawyer named Sarah Weddington was searching for a despondent woman to become a symbol of the drive for abortion rights when she met McCorvey, who was facing a second unwanted pregnancy. The case which became Roe v. Wade originated in 1970 when Weddington was able to convince...
The excerpts from "Industrial Society and Its Future" bear the stamp of an earnest thinker who has reinvented the wheel and wonders why nobody is paying attention. Modern life is hard, the Unabomber announces: "The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel and...
It must have been a very different war on television, full of urgency and action and demanding of a response. I'd imagine that from watching it, one would have expected some sort of revenge is which good defeats evil and follows with a sermon about right and wrong. But...