Word: demand
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Every time the U.S. has fought a major war in this century, its goals have included the defense of a principle larger and nobler than its own self- interest. "What we demand," said Woodrow Wilson in 1918, "is that the world be made fit and safe to live in." Safety meant the protection of all nations, not just the U.S., "against force and selfish aggression...
...attention to the entire world. Everything is becoming very global, especially movies. Look what has happened overseas in the past five years with video and cable and TV. American companies are finally waking up and cleaning up. But they were not ahead of the game. Only because of demand are they waking up. We've got to look at everything as equally important...
...friends and family, then granted permission to remove the life-sustaining apparatus. Four months later, however, the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the ruling, arguing that "vague and unreliable" recollections were insufficient proof of Nancy's intent. Last June the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a state's right to demand clear and convincing evidence in the matter, then returned the Cruzan case to the Missouri courts...
...touching on a crucial national problem, which is, What kind of a society do we demand to have? To place the responsibility for that on the health-science community is, I would say, unfair. The responsibility for that judgment rests with the entire country's priorities. Why do we undervalue the young? Why are our disadvantaged minorities so sick? Why is education in such horrendous shape in math and science? We live in a remarkably complicated society in which we have been incapable of having all our citizens share in the fruits of our national labors. But it would...
Marilyn: Something's Got to Give includes interviews with an array of people who took part in the filming, from producer Henry Weinstein to the former child actors who played Monroe's children. Wonderful nuggets of Marilyniana emerge. Her insecurities led Monroe to demand that a blond extra be tossed off the set and later to complain that co-star Cyd Charisse was padding her bra. When the Shah of Iran visited the Fox lot, Monroe refused to meet him until she found out Iran's position on Israel...