Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blatant, goofy and mean-spirited eccentricity than any chain paper. Yet ideally a good independently owned paper with deep roots in its community is best for that community. That is Udall's argument. A lot of editors are properly leery about political intrusion in their business, but the trend toward concentrated ownership is worrisome enough that Congressman Udall's ideas at least deserve a hearing...
Some analysts attribute the trend to a housewives' revolt against executive transfer. Michael Russell, a United Van Lines agent in Los Angeles, reports a spreading phenomenon: when the van rolls up to a house to move a family, the wife abruptly announces she has changed her mind and will not go. Says Rosie Montgomery, a counselor at the Women's Center in Dallas: "Women always thought of going along as a wifely duty. Now they are saying, 'Wait a minute; it's my life too, and my children's lives...
...trend to smaller families is eliminating one need for moving-a larger house...
Still, some experts think the trend away from mobility may be temporary, a product of recession and the wildly inflated housing market. John Pitkin, senior research associate at the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, argues that if housing starts had not declined in recent years, people would be leapfrogging from house to house at record rates...
...Census Bureau's Long believes that the trend is longterm. He cites as evidence the fact that the slowdown in mobility is occurring in the more highly educated levels of U.S. society, the very group traditionally most prone to prowl. His point: if mobility is declining at a time when a bumper crop of baby-boom college graduates is appearing on the scene, the trend is probably a powerful one. It is a message that has already got through to many corporations. People who are willing to move wherever the company sends them, says Polaroid Vice President Joseph McLaughlin...