Word: trend
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Your reference to the late Professor Leo Strauss's "vision of the general leftward trend of world politics" [Feb. 2] is truly unfortunate. The choice of the word vision suggests that he looked forward with favor to the triumph of the left. Exactly the opposite was the case, as everyone familiar with his teaching and his many books knows well...
...West balance? As a tactic to lull the West into relaxing its vigilance? Foreign-policy experts have been debating this issue since the early 1970s, when Washington and Moscow proclaimed their intent to work for a reduction of world tensions. Although taking a hopeful view of the long-term trend of U.S.-Soviet relations, Henry Kissinger has recently warned Americans against expecting too much of détente, which Kremlin hard-liners have long described as a mere tactic. Last week Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev strongly reinforced that view -and then some. Détente, he argued...
...January. Some 800,000 new workers were added to payrolls, pushing total employment to a near-record 86,194,000. February figures to be released this week may show a slight blip upward in the unemployment rate, partly because of the difficulty of calculating seasonal adjustments, but the trend is clearly down. Indeed, the January figure was already so close to the 7.7% that the Administration had predicted unemployment would average for the whole year as to indicate that that forecast was too pessimistic...
...national trend of declining SAT scores does not seem to be affecting the Harvard-Radcliffe applicant pool, William R. Fitzsimmons, director of admissions at Harvard and Radcliffe colleges, said yesterday...
...crime bill would reverse the current progressive trend in criminal sentencing. Besides making the death penalty mandatory for most of crimes including espionage, treason, and various categories of murder, the bill also calls for high maximum penalties giving judges greater discretion for criminal sentencing...