Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow for the third summit in as many years, Nixon brought with him a sporty Chevrolet Monte Carlo for the Soviet Union's foremost automobile enthusiast. In a curious sense, the gift of the cheaper auto,* which Brezhnev had specifically requested after reading that it was Motor Trend magazine's "car of the year," was an appropriate symbol of the more relaxed relations between Washington and Moscow and the metamorphosis of summits from the extraordinary into the ordinary...
...difficult because of recently shifting power balances. Scarcely hours before the Villa Madama summit, results were announced from regional elections on the island of Sardinia, 125 miles out in the KEYSTONE Mediterranean. Socialists and Communists had been expected to win handsomely and they did, thus continuing a national voting trend to the left that became obvious last month in a referendum over retaining Italy's divorce law. On Sardinia the two leftist parties drew abreast of the Christian Democrats for the first time since World War II, with each side winning about 38% of the island vote for local...
...somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth...
Climatic Balance. Some scientists like Donald Oilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range-prediction group, think that the cooling trend may be only temporary. But all agree that vastly more information is needed about the major influences on the earth's climate. Indeed, it is to gain such knowledge that 38 ships and 13 aircraft, carrying scientists from almost 70 nations, are now assembling in the Atlantic and elsewhere for a massive 100-day study of the effects of the tropical seas and atmosphere on worldwide weather. The study itself is only part...
Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years...