Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Party-Line Bore. One reason for the trend is an oversupply of papers. New York has trouble supporting seven general dailies-and Paris has twice that number with little more than half the population. Publishers can point out several other causes. Parisians who move to the suburbs and buy cars for commuting no longer pick up a paper to read on the Metro. Since the war the provincial press has boomed. And such party-lining metropolitan papers as the Communist L'Humanite, and La Nation, organ of Charles de Gaulle's U.N.R. Party, have become bores. Most damaging...
...Barnard offers Miss Park some hard problems, the chief one being that most Barnard girls come from the New York area and live off campus. Since it is not a tidy residential school, Barnard needs a strong president to give it focus. Miss Park is also concerned with the trend toward early specialization among undergraduates. To deepen liberal learning, she wants to bring in more creative arts, politics, economics, math, philosophy-to produce laymen who can "challenge the specialist for the public good." Her aim is to put "some nobility, some unselfishness of aspiration into the lives of these young...
Cliches prove such sturdy soldiers that they die hard. Now that "high-level stagnation," used to describe the recent listlessness of the U.S. economy, no longer fits, a Manhattan economist has diagnosed "high-level stagnation with an upward trend." Things are better than that. After months of being prodded, decried and even despaired of, the U.S. economy seems once more to be on the go. "The economy has finally formed a base from which it can move upwards with confidence," says Wells Fargo Bank President Ransom Cook, whose own bank less than a month ago expressed no such confidence...
Britain's candy taste shift is continuing. The latest trend is away from "the bottle trade," or bulk candies in jars, to boxed assortments in glossy packages; candymakers expect the growth of British supermarkets to accelerate this trend. To hold its top place, Cadbury's plans to spend $60 million over the next four years enlarging and modernizing its main plant in Birmingham. For its part, the British government looks on the candy crave as a mixed blessing. A 15% "lolly tax" imposed last year on candy purchases should bring in $140 million annually. At the same time...
...railroads carried 69 per cent of all commercial freight; in 1960 they carried only 44 per cent. Although the western and southern railways continue to show a profit, the eastern lines lost $25 million in 1960 and $96 million in 1961. The railroads hope that mergers will reduce this trend by sharply reducing operating costs--the Pennsylvania and the New York Central alone hope to save $75 million annually through a merger...