Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This blatant use of pure sexuality to sell records is not a welcome trend, since it could discourage some real talents who don't have Olivia's gasping voice or beautiful face. But if you don't have anything on your walls, buy this album, throw away the record and tastefully decorate your room with Olivia. She's much better than gray cinder blocks...
...Cincinnati story is typical of a trend that is sweeping the newspaper business. Troubled by drooping circulation-and impressed by the success of consultants in winning bigger ratings for local television newscasts-publishers are flocking to a growing band of specialists who treat circulatory problems. The news doctors, as these practitioners are sometimes called, are secretive about their prices, methods and recommendations, but most major dailies have employed them at one time or another. Their fees can run as high...
Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, president of the Atlantic Richfield Company and a member of the Kennedy School's visiting committee, said yesterday, "Whether the growth in government pleases us or dismays us, there is little reason to believe that the trend is going to be reversed. Big government, for good or for ill, probably is with us to stay...
...trend threatens to make longshoremen as redundant as pick-and-shovel coal miners. It once took 100 longshoremen working around-the-clock for a week to load and unload cargoes on a conventional freighter; 40 to 50 men can do the same job on a container ship in less than a day. Although U.S. cargo traffic has soared by 276% since container ships first appeared, the number of longshoremen working the docks nationwide has declined from 150,000 to 90,000. In New York, I.L.A. membership has dropped from...
Last week the Cambridge City Council adopted the weakest of six proposals to slow the conversion trend. The decision represented an ineffectual move against one of the city's most pressing problems. By requesting the state legislature to order an immediate six-month stay on evictions of any elderly people whose apartments are slated for conversion, the council has skirted the issue and tried to offer an election-year appeasement to elderly voters, through a move conversion opponents consider an insult. Landlords and those who purchased condominiums because they cannot afford houses deserve some consideration, but strong action must nonetheless...