Word: trend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though Nixon's camp has polls showing him a winner over Humphrey in Illinois, he does not have the horsepower needed to pull enough downstate Republicans to offset the Democratic stronghold of Cook County. A tendency to vote against incumbents could reverse the trend, however, and give the state to Nixon. Ohio's big cities are heavily blue-collar, and though labor's votes are growing less predictable, they should give the edge to the Democrats. As in Illinois, many G.O.P. officials in Ohio prefer Rockefeller as a man who could cut sharply into the Democratic hold...
...solace in the fact that for some time France will lack the economic strength to speculate against the pound and dollar. Despite its announcement of impending nuclear tests, France must also slow down the development of its force de frappe, whose creation runs directly counter to the present world trend of bringing nuclear weaponry under controls. Charles de Gaulle will now have to pay much more attention to domestic affairs. He has already moved fast in the area of greatest peril, the economic front. Despite France's huge foreign-reserve losses, De Gaulle seems to have managed to stave...
...their embarrassingly big trade surplus ($4.2 billion last year), the Germans have started exporting large quantities of investment capital to the rest of the world. Last year that flow of money reached $900 million, and this year it is expected to grow even further, to $1.5 billion. Reinforcing the trend, Germany's aggressive Dresdner Bank has just decided to move into the stock-brokerage business in the U.S. The bank, Germany's second largest, with assets of $3.9 billion, is forming a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary for its new venture. It has already won permission...
...overriding concern of the delegates was the strong trend toward change in the Roman Catholic Church. Some participants warned that "liber alism" prepares the way for Communist infiltration of the U.S. and the Church. On hand were representatives of militantly anti-Communist groups ranging from the Young Americans for Freedom to the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation. Lola Belle Holmes, a Negro who identified herself as a former undercover agent for the FBI within the Communist Party, declared that it is out "to capture the Catholic Church." The nation's only hope for leadership, she added, is George Wallace...
...notable loser is Ford's Mustang, whose sales have dropped an abysmal 24.5% since Jan. 1. The pull of the intermediates-about the same bumper-to-bumper length as the full-sized cars of eight years ago-seems to reflect a conservative trend in auto buying. In part, this is attributed to a more mature group of buyers: many youngsters, who would normally buy the hot-shot styles, are either in the military service or anticipating a call...