Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brown shuttle system from about 40 people a night to more than 100, and the late-night escort service is overtaxed as well. The University has rented a second shuttle bus and is developing plans to expand the escort service to meet the increased demand...
...this is faintly bemusing to Callenbach, a tall, donnish man who edits nature books and the scholarly movie magazine Film Quarterly at the University of California Press. Part prophet and part cranky critic, he is in demand these days as a speaker at gatherings of ecologists and government planners. "People ask me, 'How could such a world come about?' I use the example of the vast change in smoking behavior in this country, which is a paradigm of the way in which social change toward Ecotopian patterns is happening and is going to happen. When you give people a choice...
Scientists have given Callenbach credit for technical accuracy, and he does seem to have been remarkably prescient in writing about the spread of the garbage- and sewage-recyling ethic, and the growing public demand for "natural" foods. But he doesn't believe America will be ready for some of the more startling sociological changes he predicted until at least 2025. "I am a constitutionally optimistic chap, and I thought at the time I wrote the book that change at those levels would take only a generation -- perhaps it was because of the heady influence...
...call up Cambridge City Hall. You demand to talk to the mayor...
...past six weeks, three leading gulf producers -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates -- have opened their spigots, increasing OPEC's total output nearly 10%, to 21 million bbl. a day. Because worldwide demand for OPEC's crude amounts to only about 19 million bbl., the overflow has created a price-dampening glut. West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude, fell earlier this month to $12.60 per bbl., a drop of nearly $3 from its level in August and more than $7 from a year ago. The price edged upward last week, closing at $14.92 per bbl., reflecting expectations...