Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Steinberg, co-chairman of the growers' group, admitted: "We are definitely hurting. It is costing us more to produce and sell our grapes than we are getting for them." Despite unusually large purchases by the Department of Defense, which Chavez's backers have hotly criticized, reduced consumer demand has caused prices to fall as much...
...father, New York's Mayor John Lindsay, it is probably just as well that Margie has begun a career of her own in modeling. The long-limbed Manhattan schoolgirl began as a model for Maximilian Furs at age 14, and her slim beauty has been in demand ever since. Last week she spent primary day modeling the collection of Ben Kahn, which included a wild Tibetan yak poncho. But Margie admits that she is still a bit young for such plumage, and told reporters that she was "glad to get back into my own clothes"-hip-huggers...
...entertainers are always in demand in Europe, but few enjoy the adulation accorded Songstress Ella Fitzgerald. Making her annual European tour, Miss Ella was warmly welcomed by fans as she strolled down Rome's Via Veneto. She dined early at Giggi Fazi with Romano Mussolini (one of Benito's sons) and his wife Maria (Sophia Loren's sister), then put on a show at the Teatro Sistina that nearly brought the palazzo down. Dressed in a simple blouse and skirt, Ella warbled her standards: Mack the Knife, Mister Paganini, A Man And A Woman, then answered...
Frei seemed to have made everybody more or less happy, but he had not reckoned on price increases that resulted from rising world demand for copper. When Frei worked out his plan, copper had been averaging about 290 a pound; last week on the London Metal Exchange it sold for 690. Although the rise benefits both Chile and its U.S. partners, many Chileans are displeased...
...novelist, Miss Susann unwittingly gravitates toward a caricature of naturalism, a relatively uncomplicated form of literary life born in the seminal spillage of Darwin's The Origin of Species and kept alive by public demand. Naturalism at best tends to project the human animal as an unappetizing accumulation of nerve endings and appetites. But in Miss Susann's handling, appetites consume the characters they inhabit, leaving nothing behind but a bad taste...