Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shaffer says it is not just laziness that created the demand for the hotline. Freshman proctors are partly to blame...
...when the union's incontrovertible demand for "55% of the gross" was etched in Silly Putty, seven weekly paychecks were lost along with $200 million in league revenues. For 57 days Havoc hovered over television networks while Despair settled into gambling parlors and living rooms. But the autumn leaves were beautiful...
...burgeoning demand for princely quarters has caused house prices to surge in many exclusive towns, especially on the East and West coasts. The average sale price of a home in Bradbury, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, has in the past year gone from $459,000 to $610,000, according to a survey by the nationwide broker network of RELO, a Chicago-based relocation service. In Greenwich, Conn., northeast of Manhattan, the average cost has skyrocketed incredibly, from $467,500 to $1.2 million since the summer of 1986. Prices are not rising that fast in heartland suburbs, but almost every region...
Just as the huge demand for deluxe homes is a godsend to builders, it is a boon to the suppliers of quality home furnishings. U.S. sales of finished marble increased by 32% last year, to nearly $1 billion. Old World Moulding & Finishing, a Farmingdale, N.Y., manufacturer of some 500 different kinds of moldings, reports that its 1986 sales topped $1 million, an increase of nearly 90% in one year. Marvin Windows, a Warroad, Minn., firm that makes custom-made windows and patio doors for the expensive-home market, has had record sales every year since 1982. The company has been...
Some industry experts think the luxury-housing bubble is bound to burst before too long. The economy cannot keep expanding indefinitely, and interest rates, including mortgage costs, are starting to rise from the low levels that have prevailed for the past few years. But as long as the heated demand lasts, the megabuilders intend to keep putting up mansions that Citizen Kane would not be ashamed to live in. Says Budd Holden, a Los Angeles luxury-home developer: "The people spending millions of dollars on a home are buying not so much a house as a life-style...