Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called the Detroit crackdown "rather harsh and drastic," and urged that students from developing countries be allowed to hold jobs "in order to take advantage of the educational system" in the U.S. The State Department, concerned about international repercussions, has denied that Detroit is the start of a national trend. Officials of the Department argue that the Detroit action was in direct response to local pressure, and termed the situation "unique...
...benefits of economic development without ruining its glorious natural environment. That the poverty-stricken state will grow is certain: its thick stands of timber, its scenic land and deep harbors ensure more manufacturing, trade and tourism. As in most states, development has been disorderly, resulting in an ominous trend toward the most irreversible sort of pollution-badly used land. To stop that trend, A Maine Manifest proposes several steps, including...
...converts among police chiefs. About 45 women are currently pounding police beats across the U.S., and the first large-scale experiment in the use of patrolwomen is under way in Washington, D.C., where the metropolitan police force is hiring 100 women for regular patrol duty. Still, resistance to the trend-mostly from officials who think being a patrolman is too dangerous for the "weaker sex"-must be overcome before many more of the nation's 6,000 policewomen (out of 400,000 police) are assigned to the streets...
Even more ominous is the trend toward the philosophical and artistic glorification of violence and death. Following Sartre, many young people believe that "violence is man re-creating himself," and that savagery is a kind of purifying force bearing, as Historian Richard Hofstadter puts it, "the promise of redemption." Murder has always been a central theme in the arts. There were killings (off stage) in the Greek theater. The Shakespearean stage was often littered with bodies by the fifth act. As early as the 19th century, American writers like Melville and Poe were beginning to show what Historian David Davis...
...quality run to driving a black Jaguar and collecting 17th century Flemish paintings. Since he signed on with Los Angeles' three-store Broadway chain in 1946, Harvard-trained Carter has built it into a group of 60 stores with annual sales of $755 million. Bucking the discount trend in the '60s, he concentrated on quality merchandise; three years ago, he persuaded the FTC to approve Broadway-Hale's purchase of Dallas-based Neiman-Marcus, which is now expanding into Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Florida. Now that Carter has reached Fifth Avenue, he plans to open at least...