Word: demanding
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More troubling, there are not enough golf courses to meet demand. The National Golf Foundation estimates that 4,000 new courses would have to be built in the next decade to meet the crush. But high real estate and development costs kept the number of new courses to 211 last year. On average, once the land is bought, it takes $4 million to $5 million more to build a course. Shortages are most severe in Southern California and in the Northeast. Most golf-course development over the past few years has been tied to residential communities, where well-maintained links...
Genuine celebs will mingle with the fans of Hollywood Boulevard each day (Cyd Charisse this week). But the basic idea of Disney-MGM is that the visitor is the star. Bobby-soxed employees clamor for your autograph, demand to be photographed with your family of four (who have paid about $110 for a day at the park). In the SuperStar Television show, you guest-star in ingeniously integrated scenes from I Love Lucy, Today, The Ed Sullivan Show or General Hospital. On the 90-min. Studio Tour you don a yellow slicker and become skipper of the good ship Miss...
...Managers demand doctors' notes every day you're out, but in the contract you're supposed to bring a note only after three days," said head shop steward and Adams House cook Edward B. Childs...
...Environmental groups hope so as well. The U.S. imports about $30 million worth of ivory annually. Much of it is illegally harvested in a slaughter that each year wipes out nearly 100,000 of Africa's elephants, reducing their current numbers to as few as 600,000. To cut demand, the African Wildlife Foundation, a Washington-based group, has written letters to 11,000 jewelers in the U.S. asking them to stop selling ivory products. Several major retailers, including Macy's, have already agreed to phase out ivory sales...
...from the West. But faced with rising discontent, Deputy Minister of Trade Suren Sarukhanov announced last week that the Soviet Union has signed contracts with companies from ten foreign countries to supply products with a retail value of some $2 billion in the hopes of at least temporarily quelling demand. Among the items: 12 million pairs of women's boots, 300 million razor blades, 30 million pairs of panty hose, 10 million cassette tapes, 180,000 tons of soap powder and 10,000 tons of toothpaste...