Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agency is training people from the unemployment lists to install the solar systems. In addition, they have given all their orders for solar equipment to small businesses that are being bought up by oil giants like Atlantic Richfield, Mobil Oil, and Shell Oil. This is a particularly ominous trend as these companies have an interest in seeing that solar technology is not marketed until their oil, coal, and nuclear resources are exhausted...
...rise in consumer prices for all of 1978 at a full 9%, making it the second most inflationary year in the past three decades.* Why the enormous difference between the fat Sixties and the souring Seventies? Though no single factor can be assigned all the blame, one trend is now being recognized as supremely important: the growth of productivity has slowed sharply in this decade, and since 1976 it has almost stopped...
Cynics, of course, might say that TV, where the trend is most visible, has always been one big electronic comic book. But now the comic book heroes are out in the open, and CBS, which has all the big ones, may soon be renamed the Comic Book Supplier...
Harris presents a mixed future for physical fitness: enthusiasm for exercise is on the rise, but a grumbling resistance to the trend is also digging in. The pollster offers a carrot of sorts to the anti-jogging, antisports crowd: the psychological benefits of exercise are so obvious, he asserts, that many troubled, chair-bound Americans may wish to take it up as a form of therapy...
Flynn said his campaign included federal funds for East Cambridge development, and for impending development in the Alewife area. "We think we've got 3500 jobs right there," Flynn said. "The mayor isn't worried about the long term trend...