Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Begin arrived for breakfast, and Carter offered him Vance's proposals, which were not very different from those that Dayan had been urging the Israeli Cabinet to accept. The main points: ? Israel will drop its demand for preferential rights to buy guaranteed quantities of Egyptian oil if Cairo will sell oil to Jerusalem on nondiscriminatory commercial terms. The U.S. will extend to 15 years the five-year commitment that it made in 1975 to guarantee Israel's supply of oil if that country is unable to meet its needs on the world market. ?Egypt will drop its demand...
...Most people are probably not even aware of where the experimental theater is, despite its innovative and exciting work. To most people, Harvard theater means the "Pudding Show." Time and time again we hear "but we go to the theater for entertainment," spoken without the realization of what the demand for continually empty-headed entertainment implies about the culture and minds of the speakers. Perhaps the production of The Three Sisters on the mainstage will set a new trend for theater here. Failing that, lovers of theater as an artistic medium must await in hope the arrival of Mr. Robert...
...DEFICIENCIES of Carpenter's films are easy to identify: too many of his scare effects start in the stomach rather than in the brain; his characters and the actors who play them have their purpose chiefly as puppets to be twitched along as the stories demand; he exhibits little knowledge of how people really talk and think, and the whole premise and intent behind each of his movies is as simple-minded and morally undernourished as the genres require. You would hope for a great deal more from his best movies--the best, even, of this limited, specialized kind--than...
Supply and Demand...
...greatest demand is for long weekends. The Snoozer is especially popular with golfers, who can play three far-flung courses in a weekend- for example, Las Vegas, Lake Havasu City Ariz., and Palm Springs, Calif.- with the bus traveling at night. However, the company has lined up 18 charters for events like the Calgary, Alta., Stampede in July, the Superbowl in Pasadena, Calif, next January and the Winter Olympics in February at Lake Placid, N.Y., where local housing has already been rented in advance at astronomical prices. Other future charters mclude a seven-day tour of Bryce Canyon and Zion...