Word: demands
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Perhaps the most significant point in the resurgence of the Islamic faith is the corresponding decline in the Christian religions. While leaders of Western churches have pandered to the apparent wishes of a potential membership among its youth, Islam continues to demand strict adherence to its rigorous codes...
...work. Some of the tableaux used by Drury early in the show are starkly evocative of the emotions of Tommy's early life. But the static presentation at the beginning of the show becomes boring. After more characters appear on stage, the drama becomes complicated enough to demand some movement on stage beyond that of a chorus wheeling in straight lines, or squatting, then standing, in unison...
...nuclear fuel cycle is in rebellion. The Navajo lawsuit and the events of last weekend are just a start, expressing growing native resistance to corporate and government exploitation. The government and the companies entice the colonized people with money and jobs, but the people, caretakers of the Western Hemisphere, demand much more. The people demand a future free of radiation, abandoned mines and mills, a future free of the threat of genocide to their children...
...hardly do his job if he has lawyers following him around reading the U.S. Code to him." Especially nettlesome is the fact that the CIA is subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the only intelligence service in the world that has to produce information for outsiders on demand. Dozens of CIA officials are tied up responding to inquiries, many of them frivolous to say the least, e.g., information on UFOs. There is no way of telling how many inquiries originate with the KGB, which is operating more freely in America than ever before. The CIA, of course, does...
...confrontation was a militant follow-up to a mass rally at the weapons plant. On Saturday, more than 10,000 demonstrators, three times more than the organizers expected, assembled in damp, chilly weather to sing, hear speeches, and demand that the plant be shut down or converted to non-military...