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...move inexorably to the northwest, at a molasses-like average pace of an inch or so a year. Slow as that movement is, friction between the land masses causes them to stick together, and strains gradually build up. When the accumulating strain finally reaches the breaking point, the pent-up energy is suddenly released and results in violent shifting of land...
...deteriorating economic situation (between June 1966 and February 1970, the cost of living in Saigon rose by 300 percent); the miniaturization of Vietnamese society (more than two million men are now under arms in the South); and, ironically, "Vietnamization" itself. For as the American presence in Saigon decreases, long pent-up opposition to the Thieu regime has mounted. And in response, the Saigon government is forced to rely on increased repression in order to counteract this threat: between one and two hundred thousand political prisoners (no one knows the exact figure) are now being held under intolerable conditions in "interrogation...
...Barbara, who was leaving her husband, each took the part of the other's mate and got deeply involved in an angry, accusative pushing match. Barbara, usually very controlled, was able to express her feelings freely for the first time in years. Carl, unaware of his pent-up anger, which Sylvia and several group members had sensed, was asked to walk around the circle, stopping in front of each of us and making a hostile remark. Sylvia had to drag his first statement from him. But his anger quickly accelerated as he made his rounds. "Why in the hell...
...Pent-up demand for housing, combined with cheaper and easier credit, will spur more building. Heller predicts an increase in housing starts to an annual rate of 1,700,000 in early 1971, up from 1,430,000 in August. Defense spending will continue to fall, and apart from the special case of steel, manufacturers will not rebuild inventories as swiftly as in past recoveries because they did not cut stockpiles much during the recent downturn...
...enormous backlog of pent-up demand for housing could easily make home construction one of the industries that would benefit most from conversion of the U.S. economy from a war to a peace footing. Prices of conventionally built homes, however, have risen beyond the reach of more than half of the nation's families. The result, already beginning, may be a bonanza for mobile-home manufacturers, such as Redman, Philips Industries, Champion Home Builders and Mobile Home Industries...