Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gardner's dire diagnosis may or may not be overstated. What is beyond dispute is that all too many of the nation's most creative leaders are perishing, and that the trend must be checked by a national restoration of reason rather than emotion...
Flourishing as their recording ventures may be, most of the new producers are already restlessly expanding to other fields. In what appears to be the major trend, Crewe is moving into the production of television specials and films, and Koppelman and Rubin are preparing a musical series for network TV next fall. Morton also plans to make television shows, publish a sex magazine and, he adds, become a movie actor. Among other things, these departures may be a hedge against the danger that grows with every year that a producer ages: "cooling," or losing the golden touch...
...followed this trend through the Fall and Winter campaigns. The cross country team went undefeated for the first time in a decade but the soccer team finished third in the League and the football team was fourth. As the weather got worse so did the record; Harvard won titles only in squash and suffered miserablely in basketball, wrestling, and fencing...
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan took over as director of the Center in 1966, trend-predictors expected him to chart a more policy-oriented course than his predecessors, Martin Meyerson and James Q. Wilson. While the basic orientation of the Center has remained armchair--and to all indication will remain so--the Center has begun to do policy-advising ("staff studies") with clients or agencies that request assistance, much as a consulting firm would...
Recognizing that trend, President Johnson in February created a Cabinet Committee on Price Stability to delve into industries "which are a persistent source of inflationary pressure." Foremost among these was construction. The President acted after his Council of Economic Advisers warned that building costs were getting out of step with the economy "by a substantial margin." Construction wages have risen faster than those of other industrial workers, complained the CEA, "while improvement in practices and techniques has lagged seriously...