Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involved" attitude, reified nine years ago when Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death as dozens of her Queens neighbors looked on without even bothering to call the police. With appropriate caution, New York Mayor John Lindsay expressed the hope that "it's the beginning of a trend...
Watergate has added a distinctly Orwellian tinge to the national atmosphere. With Big Brother not only watching but bugging and burglarizing, it is not hard to imagine a trend toward counterespionage of paranoid proportions. Future offices of public officials will no doubt be lined with lead to foil electronic snoopers; windows, even those high up, will be etched with sensor tape, attuned both to touch and long-range bugging beams; closed-circuit television sets will monitor every door and elevator, and squads of men in gumshoes will patrol rooftops...
...belly laugh. A few radio stations have refused to air Watergate records, not only because of the cruelty of the material but because of its inanity. But for nightclub comics, no end to the use of Watergate jokes is in sight. In fact, Mark Russell says that the trend has just started. "They're moving past the bit players to the main...
...m.p.h. would be extremely difficult to enforce. Americans this year have bought more automobiles than ever - the majority of them still overpowered, low-mileage behemoths. A better solution could lie in the countertrend among the ecology and economy buffs toward lower-powered cars. In recognition of that trend, Ford Motor Co. last week opened a new $100 million plant in Lima, Ohio, to build four-cylinder engines, which have not been manufactured in the U.S. since the model A's and B's of the 1930s...
...when too many boatbuilders turn out fresh styles, fresh models, with the alacrity of car manufacturers, the new trend is to try to recapture a piece of the past. More and more builders have come on the market with big, beamy cruising boats. Their advertising copy suggests that what every cruising man wants-and needs -is all the comforts of a small apartment crammed into a fiber-glass hull. But for all the contemporary gadgetry-the refrigerators, the hot-and-cold running water systems, the all-weather carpeting-the lines of the new boats are really close copies...