Word: demands
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...last year, vs. 3.5% for developed nations. One reason is that bountiful harvests have substantially eased food shortages, especially in Southeast Asia. The effective use made of World Bank agricultural loans, which have increased 40% since 1973, was especially praised. The LDCs also benefited from the relatively strong demand for raw materials, which helped boost their exports last year 14%, or in dollar terms to $291.1 billion. Mexico and South Korea did well with manufactured exports, increasing their shipments 20% and 18% respectively. All told, the current account deficits of the LDCs fell from $37.2 billion...
...only evaporated but turned into antipathy. Antinuclear activists have slowed construction of power plants from Seabrook, N.H., to Diablo Canyon, Calif. Angry people in Texas, New Mexico and Washington have packed public meetings to protest government plans to use their areas for nuclear-waste disposal and to demand the removal of wastes already stored there. Countless Americans who have never picked up a picket sign are having serious second thoughts about nuclear power, and politicians are responding to these apprehensions. California voters rejected an antinuclear initiative only two years ago, but the state's legislature subsequently banned new nuclear...
...that the U.S. would have 1,000 realtors producing power by the year 2000, and utilities were ordering 40 new plants annually. But last year utilities ordered only four new nuclear plants and deferred or canceled plans to build seven more. An important reason for the slowdown is that demand for electric power has not risen as rapidly as forecasters anticipated. Yet another major factor is that delays-some necessary, others merely obstructionist-have stretched completion time of a plant to ten to twelve years. The possibility that plants now abuilding may never be allowed to operate has frightened some...
...events, and this year ranked second behind Mario Andretti in the world championship driver standings. Asked if he ever became scared, Peterson, the veteran of some 30 accidents, replied, "No, not really. If I did I think I would give it up." The fatal wreck stirred fellow drivers to demand either the closing or complete remodeling of the 56-year-old Monza course, considered by many to be too narrow and fast a track...
...common sense. In this film there is not a single credible plot development or convincing character. What the movie offers instead is a few benign laughs, some neatly staged action sequences and a bit of appealing moralizing about the evils of materialism. As long as one doesn't demand too much of it, Corvette Summer delivers a very pleasant two hours of escape...