Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...qualify as being middle class, as compared with nearly 50% of whites. Critics also argued that income gains were partly illusory because black families are more dependent than white families on the earnings of wives. But Eli Ginzberg, professor of economics at Columbia University, is persuaded that the upward trend in black earning power is "unequivocal. People can draw their lines wherever they want...
Michaels said he thinks that the committee will still move away from any enforced ratio--even one-to-one--because of the fear of legislation and a general trend toward rejection of quotas...
Doubtless the deep first-quarter downturn in productivity is temporary and will be reversed when employers either lay off more workers or increase production-or both. Yet the longer-term trend is not totally reassuring. In global terms, the U.S.'s long lead in productivity has been narrowed. The country's productivity grew at a healthy annual average of about 3% through most of the postwar period, helped by such developments as the fast spread of computers. But between 1965 and 1970 productivity grew only 2% per year in the U.S. v. 13.2% in Japan, 5.7% in West...
Phoenix continued the trend of picking the big men, selecting John Shumate, the 6 ft. 9 in. Notre Dame star. Shumate passed up his final year of collegiate eligibility to become a pro. Houston nabbed Bobby Jones of North Carolina and Kansas City-Omaha took another tall one in 6 ft. 7 in. Scott Wedman of Colorado...
...Crimson was anxious to do well against Yale Saturday. The victory solidified a trend: Harvard has gotten progressively faster during the three weeks since its loss to Navy...