Word: hungering
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...they are demanding taskmasters. Insatiable gluttons, they need a stream of billions of data to fill their maw. Their hunger for constant attention has caused the development of time-sharing systems that will let as many as 300 servants work for them simultaneously...
Bank customers may lust after low-interest loans, hunger for high-interest savings accounts and crave credit cards, but they are not immune to more human blandishments. Recognizing this, New York's National Bank of North America (assets $1.6 billion) has begun putting its most attractive figures behind the counters. Touting some of the "beautiful reasons" to do business at its 90 branches, the bank has launched an ad campaign declaring "the end of the plain Jane bank teller...
...Wellesley students have begun a four-day fast for peace in Vietnam. The fast from all solid food is scheduled to last from midnight Sunday until midnight Thursday, according to Nancy Ross, editor of the Wellesley College Student News and a leader of the demonstration. Wellesley held a similar hunger strike for peace last spring...
...organizers of this year's fast are mainly those who fasted last year, Miss Ross said. They found last year's hunger strike to be "most effective on both the personal and communicative level," she said, meaning that starving people think and also attract a lot of attention...
...girls will not wear armbands this year as they did during the last hunger strike. This year's demonstration has done away with "a lot of the connotations of melodrama," Miss Ross said...