Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen years later, Thayer Commons was opened. This was actually an independent, voluntary, non-profit dining association, supervised by Regina Bonarum, "Queen of the Goodies." The demand for Thayer was so large that in 1874, at the suggestion of President Eliot, the dining association moved to Memorial Hall, which had been originally planned for nothing but the Commencement dinner...
...FORTUNE. Those of you who read my Aug. 29 Letter will recall that I said we were running them to give as many people as possible more information about the way advertising works in the public interest. They presented six typical ways in which advertising helps to "create the demand that boosts the production that lowers the cost...
Such as understanding appears less and less possible. In the November negotiations, the French had to drop their earlier demand that England supply a balance in Continental affairs to any strengthening of Germany. They see--as do the Germans--that England and the U.S. are bidding against the Russians for German friendship. They think the stakes are too high to play, since it will take a lot of yielding to match the Russian bid of a united Germany. They suspect a willingness in Britain and the U.S. to rearm Germany as an enemy of the East...
...actual results of the government's power programs have been to increase the country's capacity and to bring this new electricity to areas which had inadequate power or no power at all. The reduced rates also proved the elasticity of demand for electricity. Private companies, who complained that they were being undersold, reduced their prices and found that they made more money...
...also commented that because of the great demand for tickets to the Boston Symphony it has been very difficult for students to obtain seats "even if one were willing to pay the price...