Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finishing-school polish, later Twiggy's innocent charm and the tomboyish Ali MacGraw. But increasingly women refuse to accept anyone else's beauty package. Today the one standard left is the camera's unblinking eye. Margaux is a photographer's ideal, and despite the trend to diversity, hers is the face of a generation, as recognizable and memorable as Lisa Fonssagrives and Jean Shrimpton. When Margaux has her hair wet and slicked back, Photographer Francesco Scavullo thinks she looks Etruscan. Says Designer Halston: "She has all the components to become a modern young superstar-openness, infectiousness...
Above all, there is no accord on the gut issue of how high or how low prices should be stabilized under any new agreements. Many developing nations, for example, want to "index" raw materials prices to the trend of world prices for all kinds of goods as a method of transferring wealth from rich countries to poor lands. The U.S. and most other industrial nations fear that indexing would touch off a permanent runaway inflation that would hurt the whole world. For that matter, there is not even agreement within the Administration on how conciliatory U.S. policy should be. Kissinger...
...hard to tell whether this is a trend, since incidents of this kind tend to surface far less often than they happen. But part of it also seems to be the mood of the University this year...
...year of unusually heavy negotiations. Harvard's three numerically largest labor unions all had contracts expiring this year, and the trend was to sign new contracts of a year in length, rather than the longer periods that make the University's administrative load easier...
...seven students received Rhodes Scholarships; this year, only five. This year, however, five women received the American Isobel L. Briggs Fellowship, while in 1974 only four did. In sex-limited fellowships, the women generally did better than in 1974, and the men worse. This flux, however, represents no definite trend, and the number of fellowships given out tends to waver somewhat from year to year...