Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least you reversed the trend for one issue. Let's hope newsmen, too, read TIME and saw some of the news the media have been neglecting for years...
Adult Models. How to stem the trend toward increased alienation of the young? Bronfenbrenner says that U.S. parents must reinvolve themselves in their children's lives, must reclaim their status as the "most contagious" models of behavior. In the schools, teachers should take renewed interest in the development of their charges. Classrooms should generate healthy "group competition and organized patterns of mutual help"; older classes might adopt the Soviet plan of taking on younger grades as "ward classes." Bronfenbrenner, one of the founders of Head Start, feels that neighborhood programs-especially those involving parents and other adult models...
...made one of its rare misjudgments of the market. The corporation historically has concentrated on big cars, encouraging customers to trade up. Chairman James Roche agrees with Henry Ford II that the market is moving downward to smaller and lower-priced cars, but he disagrees on how far the trend is likely to go. G.M. concentrated much of its sales effort this year on the so-called intermediate cars, Chevelle, Tempest and Skylark; sales of intermediates have not increased. The expanding market is for compacts, an area where Ford's Maverick has a clear lead. In March, Plymouth...
...factor that has kept stock prices down this year is the voracious appetite of U.S. business for new capital at a time when it remains scarce. Instead of moving into existing stocks, investment money has been flowing into new issues of corporate securities. The most vivid demonstration of the trend came last week when American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the world's largest private enterprise, floated a $3.2 billion financing-a size usually associated only with U.S. Treasury offerings. After the issue went on sale, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped nearly 10 points in two days as investors switched...
...three speakers were critical of industry's past neglect of the environment, but they agreed that it is now changing its policies. "The important thing is that industry is paying more attention than it did five and ten years ago," Luce said "The trend is altogether in the right direction...