Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alternative to persecution for heresy. I may disapprove of what you believe about God, they said, but your belief doesn't "pick my pocket or break my leg." This is not good enough for today's liberals. They want my precious sense of self-esteem to be respected. They demand that others be sensitive to me--what am I saying?--that I be sensitive to others. They insist that the government be given the task of insuring that this happens. They believe, as Cass Sunstein, an expert witness on the other side of the Colorado case said, that the purpose...
...some couples cannot produce more than one embryo, perhaps because the man's semen is in short supply or the woman's ovaries are running out of eggs or do not respond well to hormone treatments designed to stimulate them into superovulating (producing large numbers of eggs on demand). A woman with only one embryo has about a 10% to 20% chance of getting pregnant through in-vitro fertilization. If that embryo could be cloned and turned into three or four, the chances of a successful pregnancy would increase significantly. This is the reason Hall and Stillman began experimenting with...
...enough to carry their followers along the road to compromise," explains Brendan O'Leary, a political scientist at the London School of Economics. "The politicians are very representative of the hard lines in their communities." Many Catholics -- and even some elements in the I.R.A. -- have moved away from their demand for unconditional British withdrawal and full union with the South. But Catholics in the North insist upon a plan that would protect their rights and link them in some way with the Republic. And there's the rub, since Protestant leaders still cling to their belief that the province...
Most hospitals and clinics hope to meet the high demand this year by increasing supplies. "We got 1,000 extra doses [of the flu vaccine] from the state health department at the beginning of the season and we do not anticipate running out," said Jane P. Taylor, director of public health nurses at Cambridge Hospital...
According to UHS's Rosenthal, however, the demand for the vaccine still consistently exceeds the supply. Because of the shortage, he said, UHS has been forced to put people on waiting lists...