Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weak Popular Front government in 1936. By the weekend, the fast-spreading wave of strikes had squeezed transportation to a crawl, crippled mail service and both Paris airports, and spread into dozens of manufacturing industries. Barring the remote possibility that the government could find a way to reverse the trend immediately, France faced this week the grim prospect of an unofficial general strike...
Bigness is by no means new to Japanese industry. The merger trend began with the reconsolidation of some of the old zaibatsu - powerful family cartels that once controlled nearly all of Japanese business, and were broken up during the U.S. postwar occupation. Three parts of a famed zaibatsu, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, were rejoined in 1964 to form what is Japan's third largest corporation. But the current mergers are not so much part of the old cartel systems as symbols of Japan's new concern over strong foreign competition...
...country where monopoly has never aroused much concern, the government can be expected to back the trend. Japan's Fair Trade Commission, which was set up under vague antitrust laws enacted at U.S. behest during the Occupation, has yet to rule against any major merger...
...Easy travel, multiple opportunities for government service, and foundation and government research grants have physically detached Faculty from the University community and "encouraged the trend toward setting a monetary equivalent for all the fractions of the Faculty member's time...
Campione figures that Aerhotels will get most of their business from the new 450-passenger jumbo jets. Following the trend started by TWA, which shuffles packaged tours into Hilton hotels, and Pan American, which feeds customers to its Intercontinental chain, Aerhotels will serve Alitalia travelers...