Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultural concepts-the idea that government can do it for you. Against this is the rising tide of the 'new conservatism'-which is related to fear about crime, the inability to get services from government, and fiscal responsibility." Both candidates agreed that the election showed a moderate trend emerging in the country. If the race foretells anything for presidential politics in 1976, it is probably that the candidates closest to the center will stand the best chance of gaining a clear, if not altogether enthusiastic majority...
...slumbering in the breasts of most of the students I have met or worked with during my brief stay. Many students are already mature human beings engaged in useful thought and action, but, to the extent that they are, they are doing so in spite of the current Harvard trend toward sloth, trendiness, pandering to the worst in student demands, and general collapse of will and sense of purpose among many of the people who run the University...
...writing here to extol the virtues of the game of handball and to decry the disturbing trend in this University of late to supplant it with its inferior cousin. We speak of squash, that bastard child of tennis and handball...
...tasting Scotch and Canadian whiskies. Sam Chilcote, a spokesman for the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S., calls the move toward lower proof "a marketing decision reflecting ... preference habits of consumers," and Carmel Tintle, vice president for corporate affairs for American Distilling, refers to it as part of a "trend toward moderation." All this may sound eminently reasonable, but the evidence is something less than compelling. So-called light whiskies, weaker in taste than the standard brands, though of the same proof, were introduced by U.S. distillers in 1972 but have been a severe sales disappointment; in the past year...
...claim that they are merely responding to a change in consumer preference, they also assert, paradoxically, that most drinkers cannot tell the difference in taste between 86-proof and 80-proof whisky anyway. Consumer resistance to the change, they say, is small. Still, some brands have not joined the trend. Schenley Industries, for example, is running ads pointing out that its Ancient Age bourbon is still, at 86 proof, as strong as ever. Also, there is a stern limit to the watering-down trend: 80 proof is the lowest the Federal Government will let a distiller go and still call...