Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that the trend had a "residual" effect which is only now beginning to wear...
...uses these rallies to claim as yet unaccomplished feats, and misquotes figures to beat the band. He will tell you that during his administration Mississippi's per capita income has risen to third in the nation--when only the rate of increase has done so. (This trend had been set before Finch was elected, and in a state as poor as Mississippi, a large increase is very easy to achieve, but almost meaningless. In fact, the dollar gap between Mississippi and the nation has increased...
Although food takes a declining share of U.S. family budgets these days, and the Government's consumer price index has been revised to reflect that trend (TIME, March 13), food-price increases are still the most visible and annoying variety of inflation to millions of consumers. Shoppers' beefs will soon get even louder. Last week the Government reported that the February Wholesale Price Index for finished goods, which foreshadows retail prices, jumped at an annual rate of 14%, nearly double the January rise and the biggest monthly leap since November 1974. Food, which did more than anything else...
Students also discussed what they believed to be a general trend within the department to exclude students in discussions about the curriculum, general examinations, tenured professors, plans to offer graduate studies in the department and the general progress of the department...
...white disaffection with liberal national candidates, the percentage of the vote won by Democrats in the eleven Southern states slipped from 50.5% in 1960 to less than 30% in 1972, while the number of electoral votes they received went from 81 to zero. In a smashing reversal of that trend, Carter got 54.1% of the region's popular vote and 118 electoral votes...