Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irritate career petty officers. They feel that their rank and experience no longer receive sufficient respect and that the Navy, by abandoning traditions, is ceasing to be what they used to consider the "class" service in the U.S. armed forces. Many of these critics have been retiring early, a trend that could cause a serious gap in the Navy's training, management and command system...
...West Germany's liberal community, the restrictive laws, including a regulation that allows government officials to deny civil service jobs to people on suspicion of radical activities, smack of McCarthyism. "It's simplistic to say there is an underlying trend toward fascism," says Gerald Grünwald, professor of criminal procedure at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn, "but there is a tendency toward an authoritarian state and a limitation of freedom." Notes Margret Möller, legal adviser to the Christian Democratic Union, whose conservative members push for even more stringent restrictions: "Nonsense, these people, the terrorists...
With another six months of the model-year ahead, only the most cockeyed optimist would feel certain that the present strong industry sales trend will continue. But auto executives are ever positive. The fact that dealer inventories are at an alltime record of more than 2 million cars does not bother them. "That's about a 60-day supply, which is normal, given the present selling rate," says Pontiac General Manager Alex Mair. To demonstrate their confidence, the carmakers have scheduled production of some 850,000 vehicles this month, the highest for the industry in any April...
Madame Rosa won an Oscar last week as the best foreign film of 1977, but the honor seems slightly askew. Director Moshe Mizrahi's film is so unashamedly a vehicle for a grand old actress that the award might better have been made by Motor Trend magazine. Signoret is marvelous as the lovable old baggage. Samy Ben Youb is luminous as Momo, the 14-year-old Arab boy who sticks with Madame Rosa to the end. Claude Dauphin is gallant as the indomitable old doctor who tends Rosa, and who is himself so rickety that he must be carried...
...another step in this disturbing trend, In His Image is a prime example of what must be avoided as scientists work on the frontiers of genetic engineering. In this sense, Rorvik accomplishes what he set out to do. So read the book, think about the issues, but for heaven's sake, don't buy it. The man does not deserve to make a penny...