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Builders are already profiting from the release of pent-up demand. Earnings of U.S. Home Corp., the largest single-family home producer, jumped nearly 60% in the third quarter when compared with a year ago. Ryan Homes Inc., the No. 3 builder, expects sales to grow by at least 25% next year...
...REMEMBER in agonizing detail a crush I had my second year of high school. After class, I would go home and release the pent-up frustration of unrequited love with my stereo. One track in particular spun over and over again on the turntable: "Bargain" by The Who. As the music blasted forth, I would listen to Roger Daltrey and pretend his golden throat was mine. In my dream, the brown-eyed girl would sit entranced while I half sang, half shouted Pete Townshend's lyrics: "I'd pay any price just to win you, Surrender my good life...
Israeli army complicity in the massacre, however, goes beyond the role of naive bystander shocked at the crime. Whether the gunmen were Phalangists or members of Haddad's personal army, the Israeli army commanders' familiarity with the pent-up frustrations of both groups cannot be ignored. After years of training and supplying each group with weapons, nothing but stupidity could have prevented the Israeli army leaders from properly predicting the likelihood of bloody revenge if the opportunity was given them, especially after the recent Gemayel assassination. Surely Begin knows that allies do not always act as their benefactors would like...
...Julia is a cotton-candy Casanova. Doleful of mien, downcast of eye, Guide's put-upon wife (Karen Akers) sits with cool rigidity on her cube for what seems like hours. Only when she abandons Guido with a torchy kiss-off number, Be On Your Own, does her pent-up rage kindle some semblance of warmth...
...economy some time during the last half of the year. They point out that the large postwar population bulge is now into its 30s, which is a prime house-buying age. Says Jim Sherin, a spokesman for the New York State Association of Realtors: "There's so much pent-up demand out there that it just has to be let loose." Real estate agents, however, have been making such statements for more than a year...