Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet record offers both hope and warning. So long as such restraint prevails, a real confrontation of superpowers may be avoided. But if the Russians begin to feel cornered-to regard themselves as being pushed around too much by superior American power-the trend to moderation may be reversed, with increasing peril to world safety. Similar American restraint in areas of current or potential conflict can help avert a tragic showdown...
...tapping of telephones or electronic probes that involve physically trespassing into a closed room. Left unclear by the memorandum's cautious wording was whether such sophisticated bugs as the "detectaphone," which can hear through walls, may be used by federal agents. The memorandum merely observes that the judicial trend is against such devices, even when no trespassing is involved...
Pacing the Brightest. Worried by this trend, Johns Hopkins University launched a new program in 1959, under which about 24 students selected annually spend two years in college, then five years of medical courses. Later, Northwestern University, Boston University and Albany Medical College began similar accelerated programs that vary somewhat in content but run just six years until internship. And, in 1963, Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College began a program that runs only five years...
...easy to understand Anouilh's interest in this subject matter. The French have always enjoyed dramas that give free play to philosophical disputation. And modern French dramatists, with the shining example of Racine before them, have been especially drawn to ancient Greek legends. The trend started at the turn of the century with Gide, who wrote stage pieces about Philoctetes, Prometheus, and Oedipus. Montherlant turn-to Pasipha*e, and Cocteau dramatized Antigone, Orpheus, and Oedipus. Claudel turned to Proteus, and did a version of Aeschylus' entire Orestes trilogy. Giraudoux turned to Amphitryon, Electra, and the Trojan War, while Sartre refashioned...
Alarmed by the trend, other Europeans charge that the Italian government unfairly aids manufacturers by allowing quick write-offs on their automated machinery and by handing back more in export rebates than it takes out in turnover taxes. France, when the Italians suddenly grabbed 221% of its refrigerator market in 1962, complained that Italy was exploiting sweatshop labor. It thus won Common Market permission to impose a "compensatory" tax on such imports while French industry modernized to meet the competition. After the tax was repealed, the French tried raising import duties and imposing inordinately rigid border inspections in vain efforts...