Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most trouble in getting loans will be experienced by entrepreneurs who head young companies with no record of proifit growth-even if they have promising ideas. Some bankers themselves are concerned that this is an unhealthy trend for a capitalist economy that relies heavily on entrepreneurs to introduce new products and services, but they see no alternatives. One Philadelphia banker adds that even an established local manufacturer with a record of perhaps ten years of profitable operation may have difficulty in borrowing. If such a manufacturer seeks a loan to expand, says the banker, "we will want to make sure...
...electronic banking, but probably not stop it. Currency Comptroller Smith has already ruled that terminals located within 50 miles of a bank should not legally be considered branches. Thus Citibank once again is in the forefront of expansion, this time riding what could be the most significant banking trend of the century...
That aroused the liberals, who were already on the defensive and felt that the Hartford appeal strengthened a dangerous trend. Last week the latest in a series of responses to Hartford was unleashed by a 21-member task force of the Boston Industrial Mission.* It is a counterattack called "The Boston Affirmations" and it constitutes a theological rallying cry against any retreat from social action...
...manuscript of his book on the overeducated, look at this beautiful graph. The graph shows two roughly bell-shaped curves going up and down in parallel paths. This, Freeman explains, is the employment prediction he made for the engineering field a few years ago, matched neatly by the actual trend in hiring. He is proud of the correlation. Business school is becoming the newest popular field, he says, with especially women viewing their prospects as favorable in what will, inevitably, provide yet another glut in this scarcity-ridden model...
...have opted for law or medical school instead of trying to make it in scholarship or art. It's what he calls the "who little me? syndrome," where students think that by taking their aspirations down a peg, they are not being "arrogant or hubristic." He blames the trend in part on the "anti-elitist, egalitarian wave of the 60's as it survives into the 70's." Such students elect these careers, Riesman says, "as if to say, "I can't salve myself that I have an independent contribution to make to make to the world, as a scholar...