Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kitchen area, and several small rooms with doors. The remains of the library offered last year's visitors with numerous opportunities for splendor in the shelves. Miss Clark said that the North House Committee would probably re-open the Lounge if a regular staff signed up or if demand were sufficient to merit recruiting supervisors...
Flipping Mattresses. Because of massive welfare spending and strike-happy labor unions that demand ever higher wages, Uruguay constantly skirts the edge of bankruptcy. This year, partly as a result of unusually poor production of wool and beef, its two biggest foreign-exchange earners, the country has gone into hock abroad to the tune of $438 million, and gold reserves have tumbled to $146 million. Since January, the cost of living has leaped...
...science has become ever more complex, teaching it has become ever more costly. Just how expensive was indicated this week by Harvard, which announced a new $48.7 million fund-raising drive to improve its undergraduate science programs. A major objective is to meet the accelerating demand for knowledge and research facilities from increasingly sophisticated science majors, who represent about one quarter of Harvard's undergraduates. "We're teaching freshmen things I didn't learn until I was a graduate student," says Nobel Physics Professor Edward Purcell. The University also wants to beef up its general-education science...
Voracious Demand. With the President's tax bill stalled in Congress, Wall Street is betting on a credit crisis. Already, the mere prospect has helped to depress the stock market (see following story), lift some interest rates to 46-year peaks and cause bond prices to plummet. On top of voracious corporate demand for funds, the federal deficit has forced the Treasury to borrow $16 billion since midyear (apart from replacement of maturing issues). The Government had to pay 5¼% interest for some of that money last month, its highest rate since June, 1921. Last week...
...economy has been picking up speed, and now Fiat is too. Its cars are getting bigger and faster. Tiny, 500 cc. to 600 cc. "Mickey Mouse" models are giving way to huskier, 1,000 cc. to 1,500 cc. sedans that now account for 34% of production. And demand for the bigger, more powerful cars is increasing steadily. With fatter paychecks in their pockets, 4,000,000 Italians now take to the new, no-speed-limit autostradas for "il weekend." They want something a little bigger than "Mickey Mouse" to carry luggage, baby carriages and bambini...