Word: trend
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...York, the world's wealthiest city, has to borrow to meet its $4 billion annual budget, last week was contemplating a whole new set of taxes (see U.S. BUSINESS). Yet, as Weaver points out, "if you start talking about putting on extra taxes, you may further accentuate the trend toward businesses leaving the central city and make its financial plight even worse than it was before. The whole notion that the city can lift itself by its own bootstraps is a snare and a delusion." Thus cities have no recourse but to go hat in hand to the Federal...
...recent trend among Washington housing men, encouraged by Robert...
Concrete Critics. With their second issue, which appeared last week, Bell and Kristol continue their reasoned dialogue with reasonable middle age. Articles range from the obsolescence of U.S. public schools to the trend toward small business in the U.S. economy to the theoretical and practical relationship between men and computerized "thinking" machines. First-rate social critics in their own right, Bell and Kristol have years of experience editing and contributing to such magazines as Commentary, Encounter and FORTUNE. They hope that The Public Interest will provide politicians with the latest insights of the intellectual community, while giving intellectuals an understanding...
...author of Situation Ethics (TIME, Jan. 21), sees it as "healthy fantasizing and myth-making." Dr. Harold Lief of Tulane's Department of Psychiatry thinks Bond's Playboy philosophy may reflect society's changing values and the shape of things to come-"another manifestation of the trend toward greater female aggressiveness, the separation of love...
Bundles for Space. Despite their belief that today's trend toward more government financing of vast new ventures will accelerate, the men of the house of Lehman contend that private banking faces more opportunities than problems. Power needs will triple in 25 years. Railroads and their terminals need reorganizing to handle both high- and low-speed trains. There will be satellites, undersea dwellings, passenger travel through space. All will require investment capital in the giant bundles that investment bankers collect. While nothing is so constant as change, the Lehmans feel certain of one thing: nobody is likely to devise...