Word: demand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...real estate became an obsession with the Baby Boomers. Demand outstripped supply: while new housing starts rose by only 11% in the 1970s, the total of outstanding mortgage loans tripled. Those who rented in that inflationary decade watched helplessly as the price of homes took off. People born late in the generation found that home prices were out of sight even before they entered the housing market. The tales were particularly grim in fashionable high-priced areas like Manhattan, where would-be yuppies desperate for affordable housing have even moved, VCRs and all, into rundown "single-room occupancy" hotels, sharing...
...company's specialty is the construction and equipping of so-called mini steel mills. These comparatively small plants recast scrap steel and iron pellets into finished bars, rods and other products. The minimills are in great demand because they can produce steel much more cheaply than traditional plants with huge blast furnaces, which convert raw iron ore and coal into steel. Danieli has put up mills in 27 countries, including the U.S., the Soviet Union, Burma and Venezuela. In fact, the company has helped design, build or equip about half of the more than 250 minimills in the world...
...shape of tents, or wagon wheels, or ticket booths, or markers with MAIN ENTRANCE etched across them, and epitaphs of touching rhyme: "Give life the best that's in you/ for it's only a one-night stand./ There are no repeat performances/ brought back by popular demand." Here on a bright spring day, once again loosing his flock upon the land, Miller took a moment to look back, another to look ahead (saying in the doing he had never + lost his sense of adventure), then addressed himself to business...
...nationwide "stay-away" was spearheaded by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, a giant federation of 34 multiracial unions, which claims some 500,000 members. The ostensible reason for the work stoppage was the union's demand that May Day, the international labor day, be declared a national holiday. But the underlying purpose was to show the South African government that the nation's 24 million blacks have the ability to bring the country to a virtual standstill...
...choice. In The Widow, Durga has been left comparatively wealthy by her late husband, an old man whose marriage to her was arranged when she was young. Feeling youthful still and strangely restive, she develops a yen for a neighbor boy, who returns her affectionate remarks with the demand that she buy him a motor scooter. This infatuation comes to nothing, and everyone with a claim on her generosity seems relieved: "The relatives were glad that Durga had at last come around and accepted her lot as a widow...