Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reassembled colonial parlor: a Wesselmann and a Warhol Marilyn on the stainless-steel walls, a coffee table strewn with multiples and macadarnia nuts, a Panther poster above the vinyl settee, and under the supergraphic in the corner a waxwork group of Henry Geldzahler hustling that week's trend to a slim, wrinkled matron in bandoleers and Courrèges boots...
Williams said, "We've been following this policy for years," but that publishers now claim it is illegal and "are afraid of a trend rather than the fact of this instance...
After declining 23 per cent in 1971-72, total contributions rose 19 per cent in the year which ended last June 30. This increase parallels a nationwide upward trend reported by the Council for Aid to Higher Education...
...economic impact of such a large complex will also increase pressure to develop land commercially around Harvard Square. The fight last year over the height of the Holiday Inn presages the future. The inexorable trend toward high-rise and toward tourist related development would surely accelerate. Land prices in low-income residential neighborhoods would rise, continuing the pressure on low-income citizens to leave Cambridge. Land values in the more affluent neighborhoods will diminish as the congestion affects the desirability of Cambridge as an attractive residential community...
...troubles point to a trend ominous for other companies besides Fiat: in attempting to cope with Italy's social and economic problems, the government is burdening the private sector with more responsibilities than it can handle. Fiat has tried to help by building big new plants in the depressed southern Mezzogiorno and worker housing in its home city of Turin. Umberto Agnelli criticizes the unions for not taking these expenditures into account when pressing for wage increases to catch up with the cost of living, spiraling at the rate of 15.6% annually; but his greatest scorn is reserved...