Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victories: persuading advertisers to use black models in ads for black consumers. "I wanted to show what black women really are: beautiful, courageous and incredibly vital people,' says Gillespie. Born in Rockville Centre, N.Y., and schooled at Lake Forest College, Gillespie, now editor in chief, is in demand as a speaker about the aspirations of black women, and Essence, with a circulation of 600,000 has set a high standard of editorial quality...
...transmission problems that forced REMVEC officials to resort to a power cutback partially stemmed from the increased demand for electricity to cool buildings during the current hot spell...
...again distracted the nation's attention with his bewildering Cabinet shifts and gave Congress the added problem of trying to figure out who will be speaking for the Administration on energy. The distraction should not be allowed to last long. The energy question will remain urgent, and will demand solutions, long after Carter's formation of his new Cabinet-and after both he and the Congressmen who will be voting on his plans have left office...
...Electric, Westinghouse and other manufacturers of boilers or electrical generating machinery would compete for many orders from utilities that have to switch from oil-fired operations to coal. Firms that make excavating and earth-moving equipment-Bucyrus-Erie, International Harvester, Allis-Chalmers and others-would encounter a burst of demand from mine operators for conveyors, cranes, bulldozers, loaders, power shovels and dragline equipment...
...Heavy demand for coal would wipe out the present glut of the fuel and help lift production from its current level of only about 650 million tons last year to the 1.2 billion-ton 1985 goal that Carter set for the industry in his first energy address two years ago. In the semiarid reaches of the intermountain West, where treasure troves of coal lie almost on the surface just waiting to be scraped up and hauled away, whole new towns would have to be built to house the workers employed at mines and synfuel plants. Residents of the region regard...