Word: trend
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...management of the Faculty Club has been conducting a referendum on whether to retain the rule. "Though it's too early to predict a trend, it's been running 65-35 in favor of the rule," said Charles Coulson, manager of the Faculty Club...
Cutting Welfare. That is almost certainly an unattainable and in some respects undesirable goal. Heath is seeking to reverse or at least to redirect the trend of British life established by the Labor Party and its extensive welfare measures. The beginnings of Heath's quiet revolution were outlined in a budget that Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber presented to a packed House of Commons last week. The budget's basic aim is to reduce government spending and the scope of government activity while encouraging individual citizens and private enterprise to do more for themselves. The initial step...
Help from G.M. The 1971 model year looks like the year of the small car, and Chrysler is well positioned to catch the trend. In January, it will begin importing two minicars, the Japanese-made Colt and the English-produced Cricket. Added to the Valiant and Dart, which have captured 37% of this year's compact market, they will give Chrysler the broadest range of small cars offered by any U.S. automaker...
...current trend toward the acquisition of tanks, machine guns and other war weapons is just as stupid. The only way for the police in this country to serve the people is for them to become inextricably bound with the will and ideas of the people in the community," Williams added...
...billion, making it the world's fifth-ranking bank establishment (after the Bank of America, First National City, Chase Manhattan and Britain's Barclays Bank Ltd.). The agreement is the first of its kind in the Common Market, and moneymen regard it as an important trend setter. U.S. banks have won much business in the Market, and the entry of Britain would open the Continent wider to the City of London's powerful banks. Europeans see multinational combines as the logical way to compete. Leaders of Lyonnais and Commerzbank say that their association is open to other...