Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most demographers contend that even if such an increase occurred, it would be temporary. "Any upturn in the birth rate would be just another fluctuation around the major continuing downward trend," says Philip Hauser, director of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago. "It would fend off zero population growth a little longer, not forever...
...social ferment in which the elderly will become the major group agitating for change. The trend is already becoming evident in a few cities, where "gray panthers" have been organizing to demand better housing, increased Social Security benefits and improved medical care. It can also be noted in news-media treatment of the elderly. Bengtson has counted the number of items concerning senior citizens in three leading newspapers-the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times-in 1960 and 1972 and noted a sixfold increase. Nevertheless, Congress has yet to fund the National Institutes of Health...
...finding a new way to get something off their chests -by putting it on them. They are doing so decked out-and frequently spaced out-in versions of the old World War II T shirt. Underwear elevated to glamour, the current Model T has suddenly become the hottest fashion trend in the U.S. It might be called the dress-to-express vogue...
...reducing its silver prices by 10% this week because "raw silver prices have come down." At the same time the new down trend does signal a long overdue end to a two-year boom in raw-material prices that has contributed heavily to the global price spiral...
Last year it was mostly meat, this year it will be almost everything that will go up, Weissbecker predicts. Bakery products, preblanched items, staple crops and vegetables are all twice as expensive as they were two years ago--and all indications are that this upward trend will continue at a rate of about 14 per cent a year...