Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bipartisan congressional support for an anti-Communist foreign policy after World War II accelerated the trend toward presidential war power. By the time Truman dispatched troops to Korea, Ohio's Senator Robert Taft was almost alone in complaining that the President, by his undeclared "police action," had "usurped authority in violation of the laws and the Constitution." All told, it has been calculated, U.S. Presidents have ordered troops into position or action without a formal congressional declaration a total of 149 times...
...results show no particular trend to the right or left. Perhaps the only significant fact that can be salvaged from the results is that only around 480 Faculty members returned their mail ballots this time, as opposed to 555 who voted in the first Faculty Council election last January. There are 780 Faculty members...
...reporters is as endemic to the newspaper business as deadlines. Whenever newsmen get together, chances are they will complain about being underpaid or overedited, or both. Lately, some reporters in the U.S. have been showing signs of more organized dissatisfaction about other issues. They are following a European trend (TIME, Jan. 19) and seeking a bigger voice in how their papers are run. Items...
...more than two decades, movie men have huffed and puffed onto the Côte d'Azur once a year to promote their wares at the International Film Festival at Cannes. Then they have gone home, leaving behind vast sums of money, countless Cuban cigar butts and occasional trend-setting films-Marty, One Potato Two Potato, Easy Rider. This year the trend was to revolution. "Right now," explained Producer Irwin Winkler, "we live in a time when revolution is a very salable commodity...
...signs of caution among consumers have become too obvious for even the dream spinners of Madison Avenue to ignore. The result: while there is still an abundance of frilly, fun-slanted promotions, a new tone, faintly reminiscent of the Depression years, is creeping into more and more advertising. The trend is toward a fresh stress on value...