Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demand is no the rise: this number is about 600 more than in the previous year, says Pamela Dunn, Manager of housing and leasing services for HPRE...
Some say that because of the high demand for Harvard-owned apartments, competition is harsh and it often becomes a matter of knowing how to work the system. Outside of HPRE's carefully laid rules, housing hopefuls bargain their lots for better location and rooming arrangements...
...Press is also feeling the effects of arobust economy for academic books. As studentscontinue to pour into universities, the demand foracademic books continues to grow...
...supply-demand imbalance is testimony to the dire need ACE was created to meet. Its volunteer force of 110 must cope with an age 85-plus population that at last count totaled 18,541--a 92% surge since 1990. It is also testimony to the vision of ACE's founder, Leonard M. Friedman, 84, a former attorney and a retired associate justice of the California court of appeal...
During the Edo period, traders, moneylenders and shopkeepers were getting richer--the Tokugawas sealed Japan off from Western contacts but emphatically not from trade with other parts of Asia. They wanted conspicuous works of art and had the money to commission them. The demand for superfine objects, in which ordinary things like writing boxes or game boards were raised to the condition of art by means of exquisite decoration, was underwritten by the Japanese convention of giving gifts--as tribute, tokens of loyalty, signs of gratitude. The gift was a much more important social symbol in Japan than...