Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Nehru's Congress Party holding a massive 229-seat plurality in Parliament, there is no chance that the censure motion will be carried. But Nehru is plainly worried over the rising opposition on both the right and the left and over the by-election trend away from the party in what were once considered impregnable Congress constituencies. He has promised to shake up his government and to demand the resignation of some Cabinet ministers so that they can work full time on organizational duties to revitalize the party. Nehru's plan is scorned by C. Rajagopalachari...
...really believes that Communism in Eastern Europe is about to wither and die, but there are striking signs that there is less of the Stalinist sort of repression and a chance for a freer life (see THE WORLD). "There is a long-term trend working here," says a State Department official, "one of loosening relations between the East European countries and the Soviet Union. They are growing less dependent on Moscow, more assertive. And if relations between the West and the Soviets improve, the satellite countries are going to be able to broaden their contacts with the West...
...from residuals and royalties and from owning a piece of the show. "The rich writers today are the proprietors," says Producer Irving Elman. "A Stirling Silliphant really isn't in the position of a television writer. He's an owner-writer." Silliphant himself professes to deplore the trend to "hyphenated billing." "Why permit insight to be curtailed, sensitivity to be blunted, by deliberately plunging into the miasma of memos and meet ings?" he says. But he nevertheless owns a healthy 25% of Route 66 and insists that from now on he will hold out for 50% ownership...
...nation's workers are government workers. Since 1955, the federal work force has increased 8% , to 2,500,000, but the real jump has been in the number of employees of state and local governments, which has increased 45% , to 7,000,000. If the trend continues, the government at all levels will employ one in every four workers...
...families earning less than $10,000 a year. Though central air conditioning costs about $1,300 v. $140 to $290 for bedroom units, the industry has convinced many that the central units last longer, reduce both allergies and housework by filtering out pollen and dust. In office buildings, the trend is toward the central "zonal" unit controlled separately by each tenant...