Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a collection of ragtag rightist groups, the N.D.P. has in the past 14 months scored impressive gains. In six state-level elections, it has attracted 6% to 9% of the vote, captured a total of 1.5 million ballots and won 49 seats in the various legislatures. If that trend holds until the 1969 elections, the National Democrats not only will replace the fading Free Democrats as Germany's third party but also will place 40 and perhaps more delegates in the Bonn Bundestag...
...public interest in space flight, congressional economizers have been slicing away at NASA's space budget. Their efforts have been so successful that the U.S., while still committed to landing men on the moon by 1970, has virtually scrapped its once ambitious planetary exploration program. Alarmed by the trend, an eminent U.S. space scientist has forcefully spoken out, warning that the U.S. is in effect abandoning the planets to Russia. In a signed editorial in Science, University of Iowa Physicist James Van Allen contrasted the "ambitious and increasingly competent" Soviet planetary program to U.S. plans, which now include only...
...Trend to Layoffs. NASA Administrator James Webb has asked Congress to authorize a corresponding series of U.S. shots. He has proposed rescheduling a modified 1971 Mariner shot to Mars, now scrapped because of the lack of funds, and following it with five additional Mariner-type flights to Mars and Venus by 1976. In addition, he has asked for the revival of a relatively modest Voyager program that would place two sophisticated craft in orbit around Mars in 1973 and send two additional orbiters and two soft-landers to the same planet aboard a single Saturn 5 rocket in 1975. Time...
...slump. British brewers are now beginning to take stock, and what they see is grim indeed. Bass Charrington reported trade off by 4%. Vaux Breweries, losing money in Scotland, threatens to raise prices. Whitbread sees little prospect of improving profits in the year ahead. Bucking the Trend. Only Britain's second largest beermaker, Allied Breweries (Ind Coope, Tetley Walker, Ansells), is bucking the national trend. During four critical weeks ending Nov. 24, Allied actually showed a 1% increase in sales. An attempt to change national habits is mainly responsible for that. Even before the breathalyzer blow fell, the firm...
...tight money policy of 1966, the Fed all year literally stuffed banks with funds. In its early stages, the massive infusion helped to keep the economic dip trivial. For a few months, interest rates fell, but as the mini-recession melted away, voracious business demand for loans reversed that trend. Corporations borrowed $16 billion through bonds and other debt securities in 1967, almost half again as much as a year earlier. State and local borrowing also rose sharply. In the second half of the year, increased federal spending sent the Government heavily into the market as well, forcing the Federal...