Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dean Epps observes that passes to The Grand Ball are "the hottest tickets in town." The dean says the demand caught him by surprise: he didn't expect that many undergraduates to be interested in a formal soiree...
...Libya, the find was as valuable as the discovery of oil. Although the country has a population of only 3.9 million, more than 90% of the people live along the Mediterranean, where increased demand for water for agriculture and industry is taxing local rain-fed wells. Many have become so saline that they are virtually useless for irrigation purposes. Even in Tripoli, Libya's capital, most of the water has an unpleasant salty taste...
Availability can also be a problem. Compact disc manufacturers can only meet about 30 to 35 percent of the demand, says Rich Kenney, who buys pop music compact discs for the Harvard Coop...
...Soviets had rejected the initial U.S. demand because it would have forced abandonment of many of the heavy land-based missiles that are the core of their nuclear arsenal...
...people -- and these are the people going around spraying airliners and synagogues with bullets -- will not retire even if Israel makes the most extreme concession and gives up the West Bank in favor of a Palestinian state. What Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas and indeed every Palestinian guerrilla group demand as a right is not a Hebron vineyard but downtown Tel Aviv. Even a radical West Bank solution will leave all of today's major terror groups and their sponsoring states aggrieved and in the field...