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...conservative figures. Add 5 billion to 10 billion unannounced gal. that Tierney expects to hit the market in a few years, and "we'll have excess capacity before 2012," when Bush wants at least 7.5 billion gal. available. "That means margins will get squeezed and there's a glut," Tierney notes, adding that it may take five years for such a market to sort itself...
...flowering and less a mushrooming” in a 1957 editorial. The HDC was solicited to set up a master calendar of dramatic productions—much like the one in place today—in order to prevent competition for ticket sales and end the “glut and fast” of theater goers who were forced to choose between five productions in one weekend, and zero the next...
...Arabs have taken refuge in Kurdistan from the conflict in the central and southern parts of the country. Kurdish officials require Arab Iraqis trying to enter Kurdistan to have a Kurdish resident vouch for their character. As a result, the Arab refugee population is largely middle class, with a glut of doctors, lawyers and other professionals. But as the number of newcomers swells, tensions are rising. Not many Kurds forget the years of repression from Iraq's Arab majority, and many now blame Arabs for rising home prices. While I was waiting to speak to the president of Salahaddin University...
...more basic level, we can put an end to complaining about the glut of options available to us. The fact that Harvard facilitates applying for the Rhodes is not evidence of a system conspiring to make students unhappy. Rather, it is evidence of the extraordinary opportunities the College gives...
Faced with a glut of diamonds in South Africa that risked destroying prices, De Beers in 1890 organized a cartel to control supply, which was further tightened in 1925. Beginning in 1938, the company commissioned a series of clever promotions in the U.S. to convince consumers that diamonds were rare (they were not), that they symbolized romantic love (a copywriter's concoction) and that they should never be sold, further limiting the number in circulation. The pinnacle of this campaign was the advertising tagline introduced in 1948: "A diamond is forever." It was used to cement the role...