Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on the conservative trend in American politics has revealed a basic-and unpleasant-side of human nature. When the average citizen achieves a socio-economic plateau that he has long been striving for, the first thing he often does is try to deny that level to those immediately below him on the scale. This tendency is evident today as many blue-collar union workers support George Wallace in a desperate attempt to deprive the Negro and Puerto Rican of the same benefits they now enjoy. These newly self-appointed guardians of the status quo would do well...
...Sweden's opposition Conservative, Liberal and agrarian Center parties to forge an effective alliance. Overconfidence played a part. When Norway threw out its long-ruling Labor Party three years ago, and Denmark followed suit by unseating its Social Democrats last January, Swedish opposition leaders thought they perceived a trend to the right, and smugly expected Sweden to move in the same direction. The trend proved more apparent than real, since nowhere has any part of Scandinavia's all-embracing welfare system been repealed. Sweden's opposition parties, in fact, promised bigger and better welfare payments, compulsory unemployment...
...arrange another $2 billion in credits from friendly central bankers (TIME, Sept. 20). Indeed, the board last week pointed out that some of the August increase in exports resulted from an "erratic" jump in diamond shipments. Nevertheless the figures, coupled with those of earlier months, do indicate a trend of sorts. Exports from June to August as a whole are 5% above those of March, April and May. Said London's Financial Times: "We may be moving towards first a balance and then a surplus in our foreign payments." With August's encouraging figures on hand, the Bank...
...have felt that Soviet Communism, with its renewed stress on peaceful coexistence and the introduction of some capitalist-style economic reforms at home, was becoming less violent and more pragmatic. Indeed, such a development was taking place, though most Westerners optimistically overestimated the depth and impact of the new trend...
...paper, the 1968-69 season, which opens this week, looks indistinguishable from 1967-68. Onscreen, viewers will find a few new wrinkles. Bonanza, Petticoat Junction, The Big Valley, The Andy Griffith Show and My Three Sons encouraged a trend by all featuring at least one character who was a widow or a widower. This year the trend becomes a stampede. In addition, the big, new angle is interracial - there is a vast increase in roles played by Ne groes. Whether all this signifies a vast improvement in entertainment is, of course, problematical...