Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Economist Barbara Ward on the trend of speeches: "Truth is moving to platitude with alarming speed...
...some overrun hamlets, the Communists are imposing a tax of two-thirds on this year's rice crop-up from. 50% a year ago, a trend that apparently indicates growing confidence. "They are trying to reoccupy villages and hamlets where they used to work," says Colonel Duong Hieu Nghia, the Vinh Long province chief. "They are preparing for a ceasefire. They want to be in place if it comes, and ready if it does...
...restructure its internal government for the purpose of achieving racial balance." The appeals judges found Richmond's urban racial pattern to be similar to that of other U.S. cities but said: "Whatever the basic causes, it has not been school assignments, and school assignments cannot reverse the trend. That there has been housing discrimination ... is deplorable, but a school case, like a vehicle, can carry only a limited amount of baggage." The decision will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...churchmen realize that they must come to terms. One who sees it from a particularly revealing angle is the Rev. Festo Kivengere, an Anglican evangelist in Uganda who has been on a speaking tour of the U.S. Kivengere, who was raised as an animist, discerns in occultism "a trend toward the kind of religion that most of my people were converted from...
...WITH the demise of the Herald-Traveler, Boston lost one of its three remaining daily newspapers, adding to a sad nationwide trend which has seen the number of papers in New York, for example, plumet from as many as ten to a bare minimum of two, with just one daily morning newspaper--The New York Times...