Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulties of Friday's concert, however, are far less significant than the progressive trend of Thomas' musical inclination. By the range of his tastes, his education, his inherent abilities, and the esteem now accorded him, Tilson Thomas is uniquely 'qualified to transform the symphony orchestra into a flexible nucleus for the continuing expansion of the musical spectrum. It is a creative project which he takes seriously. And, he assured me, he is having no difficulty in financing his novel programs. Why then, I naturally wanted to know, did so many others adamantly maintain that unconventional programming was unfeasible...
...power intended only as an end-of-session action. Even as he centralizes more powers of the Executive Branch within his White House staff, he has drawn a cloak of Executive privilege around his men, refusing to allow key decision makers to be questioned by congressional committees. The trend could be ominous for the future of representative government...
Thus did the old year end and the new year begin for a troubled island-with three cold-blooded murders that underlined a relatively recent, and particularly ugly, trend in the terrorism that has stricken Northern Ireland since 1969. Street riots and open battles have almost disappeared; sniping attacks on British soldiers have eased off; even bombings have diminished, though they still can have horrifying impact. Three days after Christmas, a bomb exploded in a car in the Republic of Ireland border town of Belturbet. The blast killed a girl, 16, who was passing by on a shopping errand...
...Lawrence K. ("Pete") Miller, 65, owner, editor and publisher of the Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle, who attributes the paper's reputation for class to "accidents of inheritance, age, personality, location, and the like." Whatever the reasons, the Eagle, with a circulation of only 32,000, successfully struggles against the trend toward mediocrity among small-city papers. It offers literate, thorough coverage of its own area and responsible attention to national and international news...
Davis said that the decision was part of a trend toward repression of radical viewpoints in the social sciences-evidenced most recently, he said, by the Economics Department's refusal to rehire radical economists Samuel S. Bowles and Arthur MacEwan...