Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reach $35.6 billion in this fiscal year, up from the Administration's estimated $27 billion. Some economists expect that most short-term interest rates will reach at least 6% by the end of 1972. While this will most immediately affect corporate borrowing costs, within a year the trend could boost rates of small consumer loans and home mortgages...
...excised, believes that the change will have scant effect on his chilling exercise in "psychedelic fascism." But the incident points up the damaging practice of lumping artistically valid films with sewer-level skin flicks under the X rating. The decision to yield in this case may encourage the trend...
...from a low of 889 in January, the most widely watched gauge of the market, the Dow Jones industrial average, has thumped along like an excited heartbeat, often surging up or down by 15 or more points in a day. During the first half of the year, the general trend had been up, but now a new pattern is emerging: in each of the last two weeks the Dow has spurted to a 44-month high of slightly under 974, then fallen back. Last week's drop was precipitous, carrying the index to a close...
...will teach an "upper-middle-class set of color and pattern values" that will help boost the wearer in the corporate world. For those with three years and $1,000 to invest, he will conduct a full-fledged, complex "credibility study" designed to find the "clothing trend" that will best project a desired image...
Bucking the high-heeled trend is the KalsØ Earth Shoe, which is made with contoured wooden soles that slope downward toward the back. The KalsØ company claims that having the heels lower than the soles results in a natural, barefoot style of walking and a more erect stance, thus avoiding "the fatigue and aches caused by living in a cement-coated world." The price for the barefoot feeling: from...