Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. If the guidelines fail before the decline in production begins, the only practical, short-term alternative would be an ever tougher monetary policy and higher interest rates. Money supply is already relatively tight, and interest rates are expected to go on rising into June. A continuation of this trend could lead to a recession deeper and more painful than anyone wants...
Sneath is bucking the current trend of the CEO's increasing political involvement. The large corporation is no longer content to merely send contributions to members of Congress in the hope that they will remember the generosity of corporate America when antitrust legislation and the like comes up for consideration. Big business now sends its titular heads as emmisaries to Washington. Like the ruler of a foreign nation, the CEO's charisma--derived from his control of billions and billions of dollars--gives him access to the powers-that-be in Washington. In principle, every citizen has equal political right...
Kaufmann added that he does not regret the trend, because the additional endowment income will benefit the College in the future...
What changes in the world food condition account for this pronounced media trend? Why the peak in references to "world famine...
Dingman also said the trend may have resulted from the abolition of sex ratios in the five Houses that had them last year...