Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every normal person has two kidneys, and since he can live on one, that means he has one to spare. The corpses of healthy people killed in accidents provide two. So although the demand still far exceeds the supply, the kidney transplanter's problem is minor compared with that of the surgeon who would transplant a liver. Each man has only one, and cannot live without it. The world's pioneer in transplanting livers, Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Colorado, has obtained 15 so far, with encouraging results in four recent operations on little girls (TIME...
...heart was too small for the big man, and it failed within two hours. No other animals' hearts have been seriously considered for transplantation into man, despite the poetic appeal of a lion's heart. And even apes' hearts are too scarce to supply the predictable demand...
...French film A Man and a Woman came as no surprise to the industry. All year long, old and not-so-old movies have been winning the ratings race, even from prime-time shows. TV's appetite for more and better movies can only increase. But as the demand goes up, so do the prices, and turning a profit on such expensive shows becomes more and more of a problem...
Last week's price hikes are not likely to be the last. When demand picks up as expected, companies in many other areas almost certainly will raise prices to alleviate their profit squeeze. Moreover, labor leaders meeting in Florida last week were moaning over the lag in buying power brought on by the rising cost of living. They made it clear that they are looking for fat settlements in 1968, when contracts expire in such major industries as aluminum, aerospace, rail, telephone, shipping, coal mining, and-inevitably-steel...
...desired bt the continuous ribbon of glass. Says Sir Harry Pilkington, 62, chairman of the 141-year-old family-owned company: "We already knew that our float process leads the world in the manufacture of this type of glass. As a result of our new discovery, we hope demand will increase enormously...