Word: downtrend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the pool of applicants growing smaller every year, many colleges increasingly are being reduced to using hard-sell tactics to fill their classes. By 1985 the high school age group will have dwindled by an estimated 15% to 30%, and the downtrend is likely to continue at least until 1990. Predicted one admissions officer: "It will become a buyer's market...
...Crop. The downtrend of 1973 was a result of Turkey's ban on the cultivation of the opium-poppy plant, which had been the source of 80% of the heroin in the U.S. But last July Turkey lifted the prohibition. Growers planted a new crop this fall for harvest next June...
State leaders are now blaming expanding multinational companies for the recent downtrend of island sugar and pineapple sales in the national market...