Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flogging (1948), the abolition of hanging (1965), the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and the reform of the prison system in the mid-1960s. Last week crime was again the subject of a hotly contested national debate as Britons sought to cope with a new and alarming trend toward violence in Britain's underworld...
...Depression-racked economy into gear. The Nixon program had immediate and dramatic impact at home: on the first day the Dow-Jones average took a record jump on the New York Stock Exchange. But abroad there was consternation. Nixon's measures threatened a serious reversal of the postwar trend toward freer trade. They also ripped the fraying international monetary agreements that have made expanded trade possible. Canada and Japan, America's two largest trading partners, sent anxious emissaries to plead for explanations...
Consumerism. Washington's presence at Michael Reese underscores a new trend in hospital management. A common criticism of many hospitals, particularly large ones, has been their indifference to an individual's personal problems as distinct from his medical needs. Now an increasing number of institutions are attempting to cope with the whole patient. One important step: some 80 U.S. hospitals have hired staffers to hear patient grievances and to act on them...
...least a leveling off. Among companies that are considering or have already announced selective cuts are the Insurance Co. of North America, Hartford Fire Insurance Co. and Illinois' Kemper Group. Despite the steady rise in medical and repair costs-which have not even reversed the trend toward higher rates in some states-a number of companies have lately experienced a notable drop in the frequency of claims. Officials of State Farm, which insures one out of every seven U.S. cars, report that claims during the first six months of the year fell 7% for bodily injuries, 12% for medical...
Forsyth may be in the vanguard of a rather queasy-making literary trend. Readers do, inevitably, identify with the assassin, and what he has, briefly, in his telescopic sights is a heroic and honored chief of state. General de Gaulle is dead, of course. Earlier this year, though, Harper & Row issued Who Killed Enoch Powell?, a thriller-mystery predicated on the murder of a British Member of Parliament, notoriously disliked as a racist, but very much alive. What titles will come next? Ho, Sweet Homicide? Tell Them Willy Brandt Was Here? Sunset on the Pedernales...