Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trend is accelerating: chains now control 71% of the nation's daily circulation, and it looks as if most dailies will be in the hands of a dozen giant publishers by the end of the century. Arizona Congressman Mo Udall, whose home-town paper in Tucson was sold to a chain last year, wants the Government to give local owners special tax breaks and begin a three-year study of the effects of concentrated ownership. This seems a very bad idea to Allen Neuharth, the head of the Gannett chain, which bought the Tucson paper and owns more dailies...
...G.O.P. chairman in the Cleveland area: "People are saying, 'By God, the power is vested in the people, and if the elected officials won't respond to what the people want, then we'll do something about it.' " Many politicians are delighted about the trend, though for a less-than-lofty reason. If an issue is unpopular, putting it on the ballot for the people to decide is an easy way out for the officeholder. Among the multitude of issues decided last week...
...trend could hardly have surprised anyone attentive to the more visible facts of 1977. City dwellers are still accustomed to seeing office buildings lit up long after the workers have gone home. Luxury-loving Americans are constantly raising their purchases and use of electrical appliances. Indeed, demands for electricity have recently strained utilities sufficiently to achieve major blackouts here and there. New structures with solar-energy devices have remained almost as exotic as ever. Nobody seems to be considering an encore of the dimmed-out Christmas that marked the ancient time of the oil embargo. This Christmas may well burn...
Says Sol Gordon, director of the Institute for Family Research and Education at Syracuse University: "There's a highly moral trend among college students, influenced by the women's liberation movement. One of young people's primary interests is love-falling in love and getting married. That's a new phenomenon. For the first time in history, more people may be getting married just for love than for other reasons." Donald Johnson, psychologist at the University of Colorado, sees a similar trend. Says he: "The promiscuity concept is dying out like crazy. People are talking about...
Among more intellectual moralists, such rhetoric is hardly taken seriously. Lewis Smedes, who teaches theology and ethics at the Fuller Theological Seminary in California, is an evangelical who takes a more reasoned but nonetheless critical view of the trend of recent years. Says he: "The new morality is based on personhood and that could open the door to mass egotism. Our moral standards today are less impressed with the morality of the law or our institutions and more impressed with the value of the person. Even religious people are no longer impressed with marriage as an institution. If the union...