Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior White House security adviser wonders if an agreement should be negotiated before the trend in the primary elections is clear. Says he: "In the period of the primaries, Ronald Reagan could say that President Ford sees himself slipping behind and that he sold out on SALT at too high a price, to keep détente alive. A SALT agreement during the primaries could be a liability." With that partly in mind, another top White House official, himself a true believer, now concedes that the chances of reaching a new SALT accord this year are "less than fifty-fifty...
ALOT OF Harvard writers are, well, if not trend-makers, then at least trend-breakers, and William Rubenstein is no exception. His original "stagefilm," Aromarama: For Motion Sickness certainly transcends conventional definitions of what makes good theater. In fact, one leaves the show wondering what makes it theater...
EDUCATION AND re-education are major points in the PRG's program to prepare the country for reunification. Government policies are carefully explained and flexibly administered. Each village has a weekly "speaking out" session, in which villagers voice complaints and ask questions of local administrators. A trend that began to develop last fall of bureaucratization in the government was thus quickly stopped. While decisions probably take longer because of this kind of participation, the PRG can ensure it has support for its policies...
...related and began to reminisce. He described how he first encountered "the natural thing" while working for a supermarket in California, and how he became convinced that Brigham's could develop a natural ice cream without "putting down our main product." Shaking his head sadly, he decried the recent trend among some students denigrating large businesses...
...line of argument, the postwar global order, dominated by overwhelming US military and economic power, has been severely shaken by the Arab oil boycott and the OPEC price hikes which followed it. More importantly, these events indicated a quest by the formerly colonized producing countries for equality, and this trend threatens the inequitable balance of power which the advocates of intervention view as being necessary to the survival of civilization...