Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Operation Primavera had become the most successful bust of coke labs in Colombian history, netting a total of 26 plants capable of producing 6.6 tons of the addictive white powder a week. Though the plants never achieved that level of production, the potential output is about three times the demand of the U.S. market. Boasted a senior police official: "This is a bullet to the heart of the cocaine mafia...
...effort may be futile, though, unless demand for the animals' tusks is reduced sharply. Ivory is fashioned into everything from billiard balls and knife handles to necklaces and figurines. Craftsmen have even carved tusks into ornamental replicas of AK-47 assault rifles...
Clearly the simplest and most effective way of solving the problem of overcrowded Core courses, therefore, would be to increase the number of courses offered. Even if demand for Literature and Arts B or other Core areas is not as great next year, students could only benefit from a greater variety of courses and from smaller Core classes...
...offerings. Although shopping period did include six class days with no major religious holidays, both students and professors seemed somewhat stymied by the timing. There were noticeable problems, as Tuesday/Thursday classes met only twice, some seminars did not meet until the day before study cards were due, and unequal demand led to the poorly-run lotteries...
...Lack of demand for the Confessions of St. Augustine and other Christian classics has forced a longtime Holyoke Center fixture to shut its doors for good...