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...There is so much pent-up demand," says Jennifer Fox, managing director of the Hotel Inter-Continental Hong Kong, where, as at any Asian hotel, the crisis over severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has induced an uneasy stasis. "Once the World Health Organization's travel advisory is lifted, we'll get a flood of corporate travelers in one hit." As luck would have it, the very next day Fox got her wish about the travel advisory on Hong Kong. No word yet, though, on a surge of road warriors...
...Initial jobless claims have edged lower, indicating that layoffs may be decelerating. The lowest interest rates in four decades are spurring a new round of mortgage refinancing that is leaving hundreds of dollars more in consumers' pockets each month. And as Harkness attests, the war's end should free pent-up business demand...
...nightly saturnalia at Stonewall produce protests that would kick start the modern gay-rights movement? The uprising was inspirited by a potent cocktail of pent-up rage (raids of gay bars were brutal and routine), overwrought emotions (hours earlier, thousands had wept at the funeral of Judy Garland) and drugs. As a 17-year-old cross-dresser was being led into the paddy wagon and got a shove from a cop, she fought back. "[She] hit the cop and was so stoned, she didn't know what she was doing--or didn't care," one of her friends later told...
Business inventories are lean and will be rebuilt at the first whiff of resurgent demand, and there's a pent-up need for capital equipment--especially technology to boost productivity. Two-thirds of U.S. corporate financial officers say their firms are spending cautiously on capital goods--or not at all--because of the Iraq conflict, according to a survey by Financial Executives International, a trade group, and Duke University. Lift that cloud, and managers will spend...
What combination of fate, human impulse and pent-up forces triggered such pivotal moments? To observe TIME's 80th anniversary, we plan to offer some fascinating answers in a special issue the week of March 23 in which we'll profile 80 Days That Changed the World. Some had protagonists who would become famous, as in the case of James Watson and Francis Crick, who figured out the structure of DNA, an event celebrated in this issue, but we have identified some consequential days that may take you by surprise, like the Saturday in 1980 when accountant Ted Benna found...