Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to student demand, the first Army unit on campus was created in 1915 when 1200 students joined an extracurricular drill team a few days after its creation. The Navy soon followed with its own ROTC program in 1926, and the Air Force established ROTC at Harvard...
Nonetheless, Chernobyl cannot help having an impact on the beleaguered U.S. nuclear industry. Even before the accident at Three Mile Island melted down the credibility of pronuclear organizations, the industry was in trouble. Caught between climbing construction costs, high interest rates and unexpectedly slow growth in the demand for electricity, American utilities stopped ordering new nuclear plants in 1978. After the accident at Three Mile Island, some reactor salesmen tossed away their order books entirely...
...Europe, leaders were furious with the Soviets for initially concealing the disaster, and fearful of its health effects. Said Swedish Energy Minister Birgitta Dahl: "We shall reiterate our demand that the whole Soviet civilian nuclear program be subject to international control." In West Germany, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher urged Moscow to shut all nuclear-power plants similar to the one at Chernobyl. The West Germans asked that an international team be allowed to visit the site. Danish Prime Minister Poul Schluter called the situation "intolerable and extremely worrying." In Poland, where officials said there could be a sharp increase...
...brokers put it. Translation: they want a more expensive house with more space or more status. Emily and Bill Jones aim to step up from their three- bedroom ranch house in Marietta, Ga. Says Emily: "We are building something bigger, better, newer." Developers are responding to the demand. A survey conducted by the National Association of Home Builders reports that about 80% of all builders plan to begin constructing homes for the "move-up market" this year, compared with...
...swelling demand is pushing up prices in many places. The median price of existing homes jumped $2,600 in March, to $80,000, up 7.2% from the same month last year. The steepest increase came in the Northeast, where the median price hit $101,300, a 16.7% rise over 1985. Prices are falling in depressed regions like the oil patch. In the Houston area, the median home price dipped about 12% during the past year. One reason: home foreclosures in Houston have reached their highest level in 20 years...