Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drinking. France has long fought the trend by offering bonuses for large families and by severely outlawing abortions as well as female contraceptive devices and the spread of birth control information. To achieve a national average of at least three children per family, Debre last week proposed 1) priority in apartments for young couples with children, 2) tax exemptions to families in the year they produce a fourth child, 3) a more "receptive government attitude toward unwed mothers." He also wants Frenchmen to lay off the bottle, because "each generation we lose a total of 500,000 persons...
There is however, a dynamic trend towards economic cooperation regardless of political problems. Successful projects have already been undertaken in this field. Mr. Khan stated that the key for both countries lies in undertaking joint projects leading to a loose regional planning commission. International cooperation in areas of transportation and utilization of natural resources is worth exploring and has already proved fruitful...
While women of all ages traipse along happily with the trend, the male population has yet to embrace the shift in public. Provocative it may be, hinting at perfections scarcely imagined unless the wearer were rendered shiftless. But as fashion gives way to fat, milady often assumes shapes and sizes that require all-too-little imagination. There is an answer for that, too: the tent shift, a sloping expanse of hopsacking, stretch fabric, burlap or denim that keeps her bulkiest problems right under the Big Top where they belong...
...Teen-agers and young-adult beatniks have started an out-of-season run on seed stores, buying up morning-glory seeds. Far from representing an interest in gardening, this trend is part of a feverish search for kicks. The word has got around, said the Food and Drug Administration, that the seeds of some varieties of the morning glory contain drugs, chemically related to LSD-25, that will induce other-worldly hallucinations. The two favorite varieties are called, of all things, "Heavenly Blue" and "Pearly Gates...
Billions for Defense. The four major NATO nations in Western Europe-Britain, France, Italy and West Germany-have increased their defense spending an average 45% since 1959 to $15 billion this year. Despite the trend in Britain to lean more and more on the U.S. for its major defense protection, its defense budget this year is $5.2 billion, or about 7% of its gross national product (v. almost 10% for the U.S.). President de Gaulle, with his longing to have his own independent force de frappe, has set France's 1963 defense spending at $3.7 billion...