On Thursday, Heather J. Janik, a spokeswoman for the city's homeless services agency, said an additional intake center would be opened in Manhattan to lessen demand at the proposed Brooklyn site.
"If law enforcement starts really cracking down on Ecstasy, I don't think it's going to lessen demand," said Marsha Rosenbaum, who, in the early 1990's, conducted the first federally financed sociological study on the drug.
Because a U.S. recession and a world economic slowdown would lessen demand, and prices might actually retreat, cutting into the producer's enormous profits.
The growing use of English, it seems, has not lessened demand.
The success of those more expensive books has lessened demand for the smaller, cheaper mass-market paperbacks that make up roughly 90percentt of Harlequin's offerings.
It is counting on strong sales of the F-series, despite lessened demand for trucks, to lift its short-term fortunes.
Producers walked a thin line between welcoming price inflation, since it boosted their own bottom lines, and fearing it, since inflation meant increased energy-related costs and, ultimately, lessened demand.
The once strong company swung to major losses last year from intense competition, a declining market share, higher costs, and a lessening demand for the company's crucial pickup line.
The company has scaled at speed over the past few years, but growth is slowing down in line with lessening demand in China and a realization that replicate its domestic success overseas will take time.
The company floundered after a fire destroyed a factory, and the aftermath of the Civil War lessened demand in the Southern area where Knabe's sales were concentrated.
