Word: needing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong impression when celebrities share their private lives. Some stars appear eager to confide their most personal secrets in popular magazines, and they allow cameras to roam freely in their homes -- even their bedrooms -- on shows like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. "There's a tremendous need for caution and restraint," says Theresa Saldana. But she and others argue that it is their profession more than their publicity that exposes stars to the public...
...forced to practice a kind of medicine that assumes every patient is a prospective litigant. Such defensive tactics are antithetical to compassionate care: the doctor ends up being afraid of someone he or she wants to help, cautious about trying attractive new treatments and emotionally aloof from someone in need of emotional support...
Most professors say they see no need to overhaul the Summer School, saying it can operate as a money maker while maintaining its integrity as a serious academic program...
...TRANSAC is one of more than half a dozen machine-translation systems being energetically developed in Japan. With their strong thirst for information from other nations and a growing need to disseminate their documents around the world, the Japanese urgently require computers that can translate. A few machines, such as the Toshiba model and Fujitsu's Atlas system, are already in operation, helping Japanese companies like Mazda translate technical material. A powerful computer called SHALT, designed by IBM Japan, is being used extensively for in-house translations. In 1988 SHALT converted four IBM manuals from English into Japanese. This year...
Surprisingly, the insistence on victory comes from both ideological poles, but for very different reasons. On the right, the unstated premise is simply put: no more intifadeh, no more need for peace. Even the downside is welcomed. Given the undisputed hardening of opinion -- especially among those Israelis and Palestinians who have reached their majority since Israel took the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 -- failing to resolve the matter peacefully now will almost inevitably lead to another region-wide Arab-Israeli war. "Which we would win," says an aide to Ariel Sharon confidently. "And then we will be that much...