Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European sports cars in America, wind-in-the-face driving is not doomed. Further, there is an auto industry parallel to the current safety campaign as it seems to have affected convertible sales. During 1937-39 the industry became very safety conscious, practically discontinued convertible models. By 1940 the trend was broken and all makes were offering convertible models and the industry-wide proportion was at its 1936 rate. If history does repeat itself, we should see one more year of slackening interest in convertibles and then a sudden resurgence in their popularity...
Kiley's two colleagues definitely thought otherwise; they were unwilling to extend the product-liability trend far enough to sustain Schemel's claim. Their ruling held that the manufacturer's "duty is to avoid hidden defects and latent or concealed dangers. He is not bound to anticipate and guard against grossly careless misuse of his product...
...Plow with Sound. Nostalgists still mourn for the days when most farm chores were handled by horses instead of horsepower, by men instead of machines. As Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman recently noted, they fear that the trend toward automation "will excise the soul from farming, destroy its joy, dull its satisfactions and chill the ageless intimacy between man and his land." This view notwithstanding, most farmers welcome machine-age relief from what Dr. Joseph Ackerman, managing director of Chicago's Farm Foundation, calls "farming by hunch and the Farmer's Almanac...
What it boils down to is one major hassle over the ASP, and a defeat here would set back the whole trend toward more international trade. As Senator Jacob Javits put it, "Unless forces favoring trade liberalization are ready to go into battle in defense of the principle of trade liberalization on every one of these issues, much that has been gained over the past four years of the Kennedy Round could easily be lost. And let's not kid ourselves, unless we have the full support of the President the chances of resisting self-interest and protectionist forces will...
...hike will not eliminate the deficit, it will just reduce it. Nor will it stop inflation; the surtax will be a brake to help slow the economy down. Fiscal policy, such as the tax hike, is effective only when employed at the first signs of an economic trend, not six months later. The signs are clear...