In the re-design of the copper field application, the aim is to improve the current service level by augmenting the network with fiber optical wires, specifically by adding cabinets to copper rings in the existing infrastructure and by constructing direct fiber links from cabinets to distant demand nodes.
But the children of farmers, doctors and factory workers have also been known to find fault with their distant, driven, demanding fathers.
More important is the fact that, by 2003, members of the Nukak had had contact with Christian missionaries for 30-odd years; many had seen huge swathes of their territories invaded and destroyed to grow coca, as well as graze cattle, to meet distant consumer demand, and many had been effectively made refugees by a civil war.
Olds though it is, this latest Vatican echo of the distant past demands a new reaction from those who hope finally to free our Church from critical mistakes made by men--human males--so long ago.
Distant onlookers sometimes demand more purity from the kibbutz than the kibbutzniks.
And Mr. Obama is being portrayed as aloof and distant from the demands of his office, rightly or wrongly.
There are Cindy's hypercompetitive, helicopter-mom sister (Rosemarie DeWitt Jimim's demanding, emotionally distant father (David Morse); and also, outside the family circle, a gruff soccer coach (Common) and a pair of mean bosses.
In Bogart's case, his admirable qualities ("generosity to charities," "integrity in a town where promises were forgotten") and his characters' presence are direct results of the elements (demanding and distant parents, early failures) that gave rise to his drinking and lifelong sadness.
But the counterargument is that no land can develop itself by supplying the capricious demands of distant foreigners while its own people are simply too poor to provide the demand for goods needed to develop their own economy.
Russia is investing (together with the UK's BP) in LNG export options that will capitalize on increased Japanese demand, which eventually will alleviate the market by reducing demand from distant suppliers freeing up LNG supplies at lower prices for Europe.
