Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long buried. And as people gather to celebate the birthday of a two thousand year gone heretical Jew, we can easily salve any conscience recoiling from yet another helping of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. After all, at least we're avoiding that spirit of Christmas' past that would demand the consumption of "broke broune, longe flouteurs and payne puff" as but one tenth of our Christmas cheer...
Rosovsky asks the Faculty to re-examine the goals and content of graduate programs, financial aid policy, and the size of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) to adjust the University's graduate education to a reduced demand...
...said mystery-adventure stories are perennial favorites, with books by P.D. James, Robert Ludlu and Larry Niven most in demand...
...profits in order to spend nearly $50 billion a year on military hardware, port expansions, roads, railways, electric-power grids and new industries. Though supply bottlenecks were common, prices were soaring and commercial bribery was a fact of life, the crunch did not come until the weakening world demand for oil began cutting into funds that the government had already borrowed and spent...
...scattered shortages and climbing prices result from heavy demand. The summer bulge in gasoline use was bigger than expected this year, and it has stayed up because of the mild weather. In early November, for instance, consumption was as high as it had been in August. But production has dropped, because of breakdowns at some major refineries. To meet demand, companies have been buying gasoline from outside sources at premium prices, and passing their added costs on to the consumers...