Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conservative mullahs, in their quest for a return to the old traditions, want this trend reversed. They accuse the Shah of degrading Islamic womanhood by exposing females to Western ways and destroying the former practice of sex segregation. But any return to the strict Islamic codes would affect the status of Iranian women and doubtless bar them from a number of jobs that they now hold...
...trend toward rewarding and motivating employees by scheduling company meetings in distant or otherwise exotic locales ("incentive travel," it is called...
...such trend is developing, and after six days of providing retailers with only 75% of what they had received during the same period of 1977, Shell was able to ease off a bit last week and increase deliveries to 85% of last year's level. At the same time, however, the company announced that it was seeking permission from the DOE to continue curtailing deliveries until the month...
Largely as a result, economic growth in Ireland this year will be Western Europe's highest: 6.5%. Unemployment is also a high 9% but bucks Europe's rising trend and is generally expected to fall to 4% in the early 1980s...
...Naked Truth. "Backstage with Esquire" is one of those columns about the magazine's contributors that seek to prove what trendy spotters its trend spotters are. Esquire carries the practice too far in its current issue, in trumpeting its cover story, "The Year of the Lusty Woman-It's All Right to Be a Sex Object Again." As whomped-up pieces go, it's relatively modest, confining its thesis only to a year, not to a decade, as in Tom Wolfe's overhyped Me Decade. The author is described as Judy Klemesrud, "an avowed feminist...