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  • v  produce a literary work
  • s  closely confined

  • Prices could start to firm by the end of year as weak dealers go out of business and carmakers cut back production, constricting supply in the face of likely pent up consumer demand.
  • Aman thinks cussing is socially importantIt releases pent-up emotions and reveals crucial information about culture and psychology.
  • YouTube had tapped into something that appears on no business plan: the lonely, pressurized, pent-up video subconscious of America.
News & Articles

  • Marriage rate may be low, but more weddings predicted
    The marriage rate is at its lowest point in more than a century, and the number of marriages across the USA fell more than 5% during the recession. But a new analysis projects that pent-up demand and the large population of marriage-eligible Millennials, ages 18-34, means more will be headed to the altar over the next two years.
    June 18, 2013 - First Coast News
  • Unleashing Pent Up Demand
    Unleashing Pent Up Demand        
    June 17, 2013 - The Motley Fool
  • Boeing executive sees 100-200 international tanker sales
    PARIS (Reuters) - Chris Chadwick, president of Boeing's military aircraft division, said the company could sell 100 to 200 of its KC-46 refueling tankers to international customers in coming years. "We had phone calls within the first hour after we were awarded the KC-46 from international customers. There's a pent-up demand for this kind of capability," Chadwick told Reuters in an interview at ...
    June 17, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Terry Lundgren in USA Today
    We all know that September and October were not great months, so there is some pent-up demand,Lundgren said. "We feel encouraged by the early signs."
  • Barack Obama in San Francisco Chronicle
    We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country,Obama said, noting "pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness."
  • Jim Newberry in TIME
    These aren't luxury items,Mayor Jim Newberry said. "These requests represent pent-up needs for the basics."

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