Word: trend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...broad terms, the differences among the three candidates were tangible enough to judge what a majority of voters went for-and against. The trend was obviously conservative, away from the omniscient federalism of the Great Society, toward the decentralized approach espoused by the Republicans and, more vaguely, by Wallace. White voters seemed to be attracted by Nixon's relatively tough stand on the law-and-order issue and leary of Humphrey's rather orthodox liberal approach. Because so little light showed between Nixon and Humphrey on Viet Nam, it is unlikely that the war played a large part...
...Berkeley, at least, all the dire predictions about the adverse effects of bus sing have not come true. Sullivan was warned that the program would turn Berkeley into a black city; instead, white enrollment in the schools actually rose during the past three years, reversing a 20-year trend. He says that this has happened because the schools provide "something exciting at the end of the bus ride" in the form of better education. He has introduced smaller classes, more guidance counselors for troubled students, sophisticated audio-visual aids. A study by the California legislature last year showed that Berkeley...
Mother's Recipe. Communication is not always easy. As more and more East Village hippies have become politically activist yippies-a trend that Fink welcomes as a sign of growing social involvement-they have begun to distrust him and his men. Abbie Hoffman, one of the founders of the Youth International (Yippie) Party, likens Fink's recipe for peace keeping to that of a Jewish mother: "He throws a lot of chicken soup on the problem and hopes it will go away." Yippie agitators calling themselves the Workshop on Tactical Street Action have taken to trying to provoke...
...Woroner's programs, of course, are going to solve any arguments at the neighborhood saloon or barbershop. Indeed, each week as boxers are eliminated in Woroner's alltime tournament, he is besieged with irate letters from fans accusing the computer of taking a dive. If the trend toward computerized sports continues, the day may come when barber-chair sportsmen will be arguing: "Oh yeah? Digit for digit, the NCR 315 can fold, staple and mutilate...
...loophole lies in the 1956 Bank Holding Company Act, which prohibits corporations controlling more than 25% of two or more banks from engaging in anything but banking. The law does not cover companies owning only one bank. Today's trend, therefore, is for a commercial bank to reorganize itself as a "one-bank holding company," with the bank becoming a subsidiary. Bank stockholders simply swap their shares for those of the new parent firm...