Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Halting a trend toward more participation in post-season torment play, the Ivy League presidents decided today not to allow any Ivy basketball teams to accept a bid to the National Invitational Tournament...
...argue that continued protest can do no good and should cease. Many party members, especially intellectuals, refuse to be silent; they argue that the Communists can make little headway among voters in the West as long as they remain subservient to Moscow. Nonetheless, says British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz, "the trend is toward more internal control, clamping down on heretics and making local orthodoxy supreme...
...recognition of the trend, some automakers have shifted the emphasis in their advertising away from the themes of youth or power and toward value (TIME, Feb. 9). More and more customers are switching to smaller, less costly cars. Though standard-sized cars are still the largest sellers, they have taken the greatest percentage losses in this year's tough market. By contrast, compacts have done by far the best, posting an impressive sales increase of 52% last month over January 1969. Imports have increased their share of the market from 11% last year to 14%. The combination of these...
...hard line on both dissident groups; they also know he favors "no-knock" authority for police investigating some cases. Thus, these attorneys may have thought they were carrying out Mitchell's desires, if not his orders. But an aide stressed that Mitchell had not promoted the trend. "Some eager beavers were off on a hunting trip," he offered, "and we're going to stop...
...negotiate will not end the problem of subpoenas on the press. For one thing, negotiation does not ensure agreement. For another, the Justice Department has not been alone in efforts to probe newsmen's files. State attorneys and defense lawyers have also been caught up in the trend and there is no assurance that they will follow Mitchell out of it. Perhaps it will take a court challenge to establish where freedom of the press ends and aid to attorneys begins. But Mitchell, at least, seems conciliatory at present...