Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rents soar as construction cannot meet demand...
...Demand for rental units is high, partly because house prices are at record levels, forcing tenants to postpone buying homes-or to double up and join another family in renting a large old house. The tight market also reflects changing American social values. The growing population of Splitsville-more than 1 million Americans got divorces last year, v. less than half that number a decade ago-has forced spouses to seek separate dwellings, and they usually want apartments. So do childless hetero-and homosexual couples and independent-minded women. In Los Angeles, the number of people per dwelling dropped from...
...country in the past three years. GF tries to confine sales of the candy to its test markets, where a one-fifth-ounce package sells for 20? retail, but entrepreneurs have managed to obtain supplies and spirit them elsewhere, at prices up to 50? a package. Despite the potential demand, GF is moving cautiously before going national. Reason: although the company makes more than 400 food products, it has never before sold a candy...
...living example of the affluent materialistic paradise, is caught in a raging economic crisis, the like of which few industrial countries have seen since the 1930s. Workers who used to boast of their high living standards and womb-to-tomb social welfare system nowadays demonstrate in the streets to demand speedy government action to stop soaring prices and booming unemployment...
...economic upturn. While other countries struggled with recession and layoffs, the Socialist government of Prime Minister Olof Palme simply subsidized industry. Companies were paid to maintain full production and full employment, even when they could not sell and had to stockpile their goods in anticipation of a surge in demand. The immediate result was a flush of apparent prosperity, which allowed militant unions to get wage increases of 40% in the two-year period...