Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political literature and raised the funds needed to bring out the public vote that revoked the rights of gays in those places. Unfortunately, America is currently besieged by an army of religious zealots who see the Government and the ballot box as instruments for enforcing church dogma. If the trend continues, we'll have Government-enforced religion and the end of a 200-year-old democratic tradition. It's time church and state were separate once again...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 in favor of the snail darter's right to life. Wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger: "The plain intent of Congress was to halt and reverse the trend toward extinction." In dissent, Justice Lewis Powell noted dryly that this meant vital federal projects would have to be canceled if they "threaten some endangered cockroach." Indeed, the decision could affect at least eleven other projects, including the proposed $690 million Dickey-Lincoln Dam in Maine, which would endanger the Furbish lousewort, a rare plant that resembles the snapdragon...
People of all classes are practicing small and not so small economies. Many have been driven by the rocketing price of meat, especially beef, to buy cheap cuts. This trend will probably not be reversed by the Carter Administration's decision last week to let in 200 million more lbs. of imported beef-15% above the present limit-mostly of the kind used in hamburgers and hot dogs. At best that move will keep the price of a pound of hamburger 5? below the level it would have hit at the end of the year...
...eighth-grade students at Ken Caryl Junior High School in suburban Denver is the "Great Boil-Over." Under the rules, contestants are pitted against one another to determine who can boil water fastest ?with the least amount of fuel. The exercise is part of a growing trend in U.S. elementary and high schools: instruction in the basics of energy conservation. The aim is to prepare students for a world where energy is no longer cheap or plentiful. Teachers explain how students' fuel-using habits touch on the larger issues of dwindling supplies of oil, gas and other fossil fuels...
...long term, the trend away from corporate nomadism may benefit the companies as much as executives and their families. For one thing, the cost of moving is huge; the average bill for a transfer is $16,000?and rising. More important, an executive who wants to stay put will probably work harder just to qualify for promotion on the spot ?rather than having to move elsewhere for advancement...