Word: downtrend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of TV documentaries on such contro versial subjects as integration, and is an omnivorous reader on topics from poli tics to psychology. His chief problems today are to pull together Bell & Howell's extensive recent acquisitions in electronics and business equipment, and to reverse a two-year downtrend in profits. Already, third-quarter earnings are up 20% from last year...
...Leftist Editor Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, whose weekly L'Express has been having its own circulation troubles since the end of the Algerian war deprived it of its major issue, doubts that any of these measures will halt the downtrend. The problem, says he, is neither TV, nor slanted reporting, nor a glut of papers, but the fact that Charles de Gaulle has hobbled political parties. "Gaullist France is not interested in national affairs," said Servan-Schreiber, a longtime anti-Gaul-list, who might have a telling point here. "People know that De Gaulle makes his own decisions...
...measured by the Gallup poll, President Kennedy's popularity has been declining since last March, when it reached a high for the year of 79%. In August it had dropped to 66%. Last week the latest poll showed that the downtrend had stopped; now 67% of U.S. voters approve of the way Kennedy is handling...