Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national insomnia. The issues raised the first two weeks were tough, complicated and significantly more interesting than the guests themselves. If this continues, Tomorrow will provide welcome relief from Johnny Carson's embarrassing sexual drivel and Dick Cavett's earnest but patronizing good intentions, and, more importantly, start a trend toward 24-hour programming...
This year could change the trend. I haven't even gone out for Alka-Seltzer for the Sunday morning aftermath. And from the way things have been going this year in the Ivy League, the time seems ripe for a new script...
Accountability is essential to our rights. Yet the trend of recent years has been to weaken accountability and to strengthen that elitism which results from reposing decision-making authority in bureaucracies and groups beyond the reach of democratic recall...
Jeans and denim skirts seem to have become a permanent part of many women's wardrobes, but the pure proletarian look is quickly receding. The new, rather reactionary yen is to set off casual clothes with touches of camp or swank. Result: a growing trend toward offbeat tops as snazzy, jazzy, individualistic mates for the denims. During the summer this took the form of T shirts with silk-screen designs (Marilyn Monroe pinups, for example), funny messages ("Keep on Truckin' ") or advertising slogans ("Try it, you'll like it"). For fall and winter the fad is expanding...
...Eximbank does grant credits for the pipeline, an economic tie that has been dormant for almost ten years would be restored. Even more important, the pipeline revenues could encourage Egypt to continue its trend toward less ideological policies. With more funds, it will be able to resist the blandishments of oil-soaked, militantly anti-American Libya, upon which it has been heavily dependent for aid. Indeed, the line might even attract some business from a competitor: the Israelis' Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline. Still, the U.S. and Egypt are playing down the political possibilities. Egypt's government-controlled press...