Word: trend
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...slowdown abroad, to be sure, has been milder than the U.S. recession. Yet as the U.S. economy shows ever more vigorous signs of reanimation, no similar trend is immediately visible in Europe. In the past few months, nearly every government has revised its 1975 growth forecasts downward. The main reason: West Germany's economy, which accounts for fully one-third of the European Community's gross national product, has failed to respond to the expansionary program of tax credits and deficit spending launched by the government last fall. Unemployment is holding at record postwar levels (4.4% in June...
...Soviets, of course, the trend toward exposing the CIA is priceless. According to Dr. Albert Hall, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, it has become easier for the Kremlin to take countermeasures "to deny us information we need and have come to count on." Dr. Hall refuses to name a specific example, but other top-level sources cite one. On May 25, the New York Times revealed that U.S. submarines, specially equipped with electronic spying gear and operating under the code name Holystone, had been monitoring Soviet missile activities for 15 years, sometimes within Russian territorial waters. As a result...
...Trend. The Seattle Ring has a predominantly young cast, with just enough veterans to glue things together. Among them is the stage director, George London, 55, one of the great Wagnerian bass-baritones of the 1950s and '60s. If London has his way, he may start a whole new realistic trend in staging the Ring. After the innovative Wieland Wagner began presenting his grandfather's works as absorbing formal abstractions at Bayreuth in the early 1950s, the imitators began falling into line. Says London: "Soon everyone was in a culdesac, with no place to go. That is when...
...Auto sales in the first ten days of July were the highest for any similar period since October; a rise of 6% over the comparable June period reversed the usual seasonal trend...
...years that machinery was widely admired because it supposedly was responsible for steadily shrinking food's share of the typical U.S. family's budget. But since 1973 that trend has been reversed. In 1970 food claimed 33% of the income of a family of four earning $8,100; today the figure is 37%. As a result, experts are taking their first long look at the machinery in years. What they are finding is a costly, cumbersome system that, for example, adds 24.3?, or 69%, to the price of a pound of chicken between farm and check-out counter...