Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trend toward isolationism or neo-isolationism really developed in the latter stages of the Viet Nam War. It is my general impression that the American people are now gradually shifting to a broader view and the trend toward isolationism may have turned. I notice this in the way Congress is reacting. This year, for example, we didn't have the same difficulty in defeating the several amendments which were aimed at forcing us to unilaterally bring back some of our troops from NATO...
...experts expect these developments to trigger a renewed burst of inflation. But there is concern that the recent price rises may presage a move by some companies to seize on the first fragile signs of a rebound, to raise their prices. Any such trend, warns Albert Rees, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, would "retard the recovery very severely" by discouraging consumer buying...
Preus has had to buck a strong religious trend. Most mainstream U.S. Protestants-and even many Roman Catholics-nowadays tolerate a wide diversity of theological opinion, and until Preus' election in 1969, the Missouri...
...survival" has been a slogan that encompasses a number of issues. Besides support for Israel and Soviet Jewry, the concept includes attempts to counteract losses through secularization and intermarriage of Jews with Gentiles. Another, and some say the greatest threat to Jewish survival is being increasingly talked about: the trend among modern Jews to have small families. In the U.S., for example, enrollment in synagogue classes and day schools has declined by roughly one-fourth since 1965, owing largely to the falling Jewish birth rate...
...question mark, Burger and Rehnquist are now the most certain votes on the right. The liberals-William Douglas, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall-remain in general agreement. And, to be sure, they are still often in the minority. The Wall Street Journal, for instance, has detected a majority trend toward favoring business, partly because of a desire to cut the glut of cases challenging all manner of commercial activity...