Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee of the National Academy of Sciences warned this week against "a recent trend toward restriction of scientific freedom" in the administration of government grants...
Some of the trends beneath the headlines may seem frivolous, but they bear watching as part of life in a modern world. As Music reports this week, all Christendom has lately learned that rock 'n' roll begat what Englishmen call "the beat," and the beat begat the Beatles. But not so many people outside the territory of some astute British journals realize that rock-turned-beat has actually had a salutary effect on some of the toughest juveniles in England, turning them away from delinquency and toward something that Music describes as "better than beating up old ladies...
...steel to the fact that a glass of beer costs nearly as much in Munich as it does in Milwaukee. WORLD BUSI NESS concludes that inflation is the most serious threat to the health of Europe's economic boom. In some cases, the threads of a major trend story literally spread around the world. WORLD BUSINESS got reports from 25 cities-for the two-column story charting the worldwide increase in the use of electric power and the search for new sources...
...Chile, New York's Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits went even further. Javits warned against the "erosion of investor confidence" in Lat in America, predicted a "great outward tide" of private investment, both in U.S. and local money, unless a major effort is made to reverse the trend. It is up to Latin American governments, said Javits, to do more to improve the climate for business. The private sector actually accounts for 70% of all economic activity in Latin America. And, contrary to popular belief, said Javits, "90% of that private sector is owned by Latin American investors themselves...
...well-worn path, not blazing a trail. Just as she plinked on a guitar last year, the informed 'Cliffie this year pierced her ears. How can mothers protest when "all the other girls on my corridor have pierced ears?" Furthermore, some mothers are not beating, but joining, the trend. It is not surprising to hear of a mother and daughter having their ears pierced at the same time, perhaps to present a solid front against the male wrath...