Then a group of much younger, tougher-looking men materialized, demanding money for interviews I didn't want.
But that situation did not materialize, and "demand remains strong" said J. Douglas Petrozzini, a senior vice president in the Edison office of Grubb & Ellis, the national commercial brokerage company.
"There was a time," he added, "when it was routine to build in advance of immediate demand: Newark, Dulles, Dallas and even Denver were all built before the demand actually materialized.
But as a kingdom of real estate materialized, growth ultimately exceeded demand: investors were selling to one another, inflating prices.
As huge Super Bowl demand suddenly materialized from the big Northeast market two weeks ago, some airlines quietly raised top coach fares on those routes.
BP was seen as prescient for having invested in the remote field in the early 1990s in anticipation of a boom in Chinese energy demand that materialized a decade later.
But that demand never materialized once researchers discovered that most chimps do not get sick from HIV.
Unfortunately for the approximately 400 golf courses built each year during this period, this demand never materialized.
Ms. Matura added that Daimler's plant in Hambach, France, would be able to meet the demand for electric Smarts, should that demand materialize.
Such long-term contracts were widely bought and sold during the Internet boom, as network operators like Qwest, Global Crossing and other communications upstarts tried to build, buy or borrow network capacity in anticipation of demand for data traffic -- demand that seldom materialized to the extent forecast.
The arms embargo never materialized, because President Reagan demanded that Moscow stop supplying Najibullah as part of the bargain, and the Soviets refused.
