Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current and probably last of the Canal Zone's 17 American Governors, Major General Harold R. Parfitt, 56, spends much of his time trying to persuade canal employees to stay on. He objects to the term "exodus," but admits there has been "an increase and a trend" in resignations, even though most of the people could remain for the next 23 years under the agreement, working for the new "entity" that would replace the canal company until Panama gains full control. Says Pilot Marshall Irwin: "I don't intend to work for a dictator...
...full-service station, long a familiar and comforting fixture of the American roadside, is falling victim to a major new marketing trend. For years the large oil companies, which own or lease most stations, were not concerned about income from gasoline sales; their earnings came mainly from producing and selling crude oil. But those profits have been slashed by takeovers of production facilities by governments abroad and price controls...
...Texaco, Exxon, Mobil and other oil giants have been closing down at a dizzying clip what they consider marginal stations. Nationwide, the number of stations has dropped from 226,000 in 1973 to 180,000 at present, and virtually no new full-service stations are being built. Instead, the trend is to no-service stations that sell only gas and oil, require customers to fill 'er up themselves, and can be operated by a single cashier...
...people are as pleased with Hollywood's new trend as Producer George Pal, whose sci-fi films of the 1950s regularly won Academy Awards for their special effects. Not only are Pal pictures like The War of the Worlds (1953) and When Worlds Collide (1951) being rereleased, but the latter is about to be remade by Director John Frankenheimer. Pal himself, now 69, is at work writing a sequel to his 1961 film The Time Machine. Says he: "Star Wars has proved again that a special effect is as big a star as any in the world...
...Names. In the process, the industry will introduce no fewer than 13 new or substantially altered model lines and drop several others, while further blurring the already fuzzy categories of car size. That fuzzifying began in earnest with the current model year, when General Motors inaugurated the downsizing trend by whacking nearly half a ton off the average weight of its full-size models. This time the other automakers are following GM's lead, with the result that a 1978 full-size car will be about as big as a 1977 mid-size model, and a 1978 intermediate will...