Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some certainty in an uncertain future. Nor do the swelling ranks of pre-meds talk so loudly about opening a clinic in a ghetto neighborhood and improving health care for the poor, or starting a practice in a rural community without a doctor, most would rather keep with the trend and stay in the more lucrative urban and suburban areas...
...movement of American society toward reducing sex to animal-like conduct" is reversing itself, Amitai Etzioni said, and the new trend will create "a synthesis, a new middle" in sexual behavior...
...unmistakable trend toward moderation did not resolve all of China's problems. On the crucial issue of succession, for example, some large questions remained unanswered. Teng Hsiao-ping would after Chou probably lead the pack of successors should Chairman Mao pass from the scene. Yet Teng is himself an old man; moreover, the comparatively young radicals who attacked him during the Cultural Revolution still occupy high party positions and could clearly make strong bids for the party chairmanship themselves...
...trend toward bigness made sense when it began in the mid-1960s. To accommodate the financial needs of a rapidly enlarging economy, banks had to grow-and were encouraged by Government regulators to do so. And bankers did not have to have their arms twisted to take full advantage of a profitable situation. Mayer's concern is about the way banks have sought to fuel their growth by boosting income on loans. In the past, he explains, banks drew mostly on the money of their depositors or on bank investments in notes and bonds to accommodate borrowers. When their...
...those who can easily attend. On the other hand, in the new survey, 6% of those questioned had attended a Catholic Pentecostal prayer meeting, a figure that if extrapolated to the U.S. Catholic population, would put the number of charismatic experimenters at well over 2 million. In another upward trend, recipients of weekly Communion have doubled, from...