Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history's most enduring trends is the ever-expanding right of suffrage. To be sure, almost every state still denies the vote to telons and mental defectives; eight states also exclude paupers. The same goes officially for Mississippi's nontaxed Indians and unofficially for most of its Negroes, who comprise 45% of the population. Still disqualified in Nevada and Virginia are "those engaging in duels" and in Florida "persons interested in any wager depending on the result of any election." But more typical of the trend is a new federal court order forbidding Texas to disqualify thousands...
...costs more used than it did new. The standard is more esthetic than functional: a Louis XIV chair is often a precarious support, and a 1926 Packard roadster may be a ruinously expensive way of getting down to the supermarket. But esthetics have nothing to do with the new trend in the antique trade. Its name is "junk." True, it has to be out-of-the-ordinary junk. But to the expert spotter, every attic and old barn in the U.S. is a potential treasure-trove of salable detritus. The technique is summed up by a roadside secondhand store south...
...stock exchanges has been going on for many months, partly because U.S. companies are increasingly aware of the advantages of listing: added prestige, broader ownership of shares, more active trading in the stock. Last week they got an added reason for listing that is sure to speed up the trend. President Johnson signed a bill that gives the Government broad new authority to regulate stocks traded both on and off the exchanges...
Ideally, the economists want to spot a zig or a zag in the graphs that may mark the beginning of a trend. They now recognize that there are a few such signs that indicate an impending recession well in advance of an actual downturn. Like the blips on a DEW-line monitor, these signals are only warnings of impending crisis; they are not recessionary in themselves. The chief harbingers...
Just in Case. None of these indicators are new. But economists believe that they have achieved a new sophistication in trend spotting. Using computers, the forecasters have reduced the time lag for most information-gathering from six months to two. And they are surer of what the information means, thanks to better reporting and more experience in analysis...