Word: trend
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Preoccupation with economic conditions has contributed to what Yankelovich regards as a growing isolationist trend in the country. Only 2% of those polled listed any aspect of foreign affairs as a major national concern. Furthermore, contrary to the opinion of all respected economists, 55% of the people surveyed believe that inflation can be solved by domestic action alone. Only 38% understand that handling inflation requires worldwide solutions and agreements. The belief that inflation is primarily a domestic matter cut across party lines and political views...
...people come to grips with the population problem," warns Norman Borlaug, the prime mover of the Green Revolution. "The stage is set for such a situation right now." Indeed, in parts of Central America, in ten sub-Saharan nations and in some rural areas of India, the 20-year trend of declining death rates and infant mortality is being reversed. Death rates are rising. This, according to Malthus, is nature's brutal way of redressing the balance when population exceeds food supply-if man himself does not first redress it voluntarily...
However they explain the recent cooling, there are many observers who are not convinced that it is part of a long-term trend. Two Government experts, Donald Oilman and J. Murray Mitchell Jr., argue that it may only be a random fluctuation, rather than part of any fixed cycle. In fact until a few years ago, many scientists suspected that the earth would heat up, largely because of mankind's increasing output of carbon dioxide. A byproduct of fossil-fuel burning, the gas lets sunlight pass down through the atmosphere but prevents the escape of infra-red heat waves...
Still, from the Rockies to the Pacific, the Democratic trend seems inexorable. In a recent poll in California, Democratic Senator Alan Cranston was 35 points ahead of Republican Rival H.L. Richardson. Traditionally Republican Arizona will probably elect Democrat Raul Castro as Governor and perhaps even a Democratic state senate. The Democratic sweep is likely to be blocked only in Alaska, where Governor William Egan is trailing Republican Challenger Jay Hammond, and Senator Mike Gravel shows only a slim lead over his Republican rival, C.R. Lewis, a state senator and member of the John Birch Society's advisory council...
Part of the trend stems from wide spread disillusionment over Viet Nam, part from the multifarious crimes of Watergate that ruined so many reputations and deepened public distrust. Now there is a new and spreading skepticism about the pronouncements of the mighty, a new impatience with politics as usual, a new eagerness to challenge practices that were once bunked at. This demand for higher standards can have practical benefits. Last week, for instance, President Ford signed a long overdue campaign-financing reform bill. The voters of California have approved a stringent anticorruption measure. But there is also a tendency...