Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy ignored both statistics and statements. If business were slipping, money should be easing; yet last week money was tighter than ever, reflecting a demand for funds to finance expansion. The Federal Reserve Board announced that record levels during May were maintained in construction activity, nonfarm employment, personal income and retail sales. Mortgage applications jumped to their highest level in several months, leading builders to hope for a summer upturn in lagging home building...
With oil already in oversupply, Sinclair, Gulf and Conoco broke the rules of supply and demand last week and raised their wholesale prices; other major firms were expected to follow their lead. Experts claimed that the U.S. oil industry is creating a pattern of passing on increases in labor and other costs ultimately to the consumer...
...blossomed into a big business. Like the motel boom, the number of U.S. marinas has grown from a mere handful before World War II to more than 10,000 anchorages of all kinds doing a $500 million annual business. Yet they cannot begin to meet the yachtsmen's demand. Estimates are that the U.S. already needs 10,000 more marinas with room for 2,000,000 boats, and is falling farther behind every year. In the New York area alone, 300,000 boat-owning yachtsmen scramble for space at only 20,000 slips and moorings...
...boom has grown so fast that many boatmen see a leveling-off period while marinas catch up to the demand. But once the marinas are built, there is no limit to the yachtsman's joy-or the boatbuilders' business...
...tremendous impact and impetus. The marvelous characteristically Baroque drive and momentum are there, thanks in part to the right pace throughout. To this end he has wisely allowed only one ten-minute intermission. And he insisted that there be no pause or lowering of curtain between scenes, a demand that fortunately Rouben Ter-Aruntunian's ingeniously mobile slatted sets and a precision-drilled stage crew have been able to meet. He moves his cast fluidly over the stage and the apron that projects into the audience; his blocking of characters is imaginative and tastefully unmechanical; and the "stage business...