Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of students. Eight years ago Epps would not have been asked to arbitrate an inter-organizational dispute among students--they believed he had sold out to the "oppressive" institution of Harvard University. This year it seems these former adversaries have sold out to him. This conservative trend indicates a fear on the part of HRBSA and Epps to question the organizations in which they have ensconced themselves. This is another example of the '70s' Soul on Crushed Ice effect, in which a facade of liberal action hides an indolence and stagnation matched only by the indolence and stagnation...
...after reading the final communique, "in the whole list I don't see a single concrete agreement." His point: the seven summiteers had expressed good intentions rather than committing themselves to specific policies. Almost to a man, Triffin and his board colleagues were concerned about a rising global trend toward protectionism, which could inhibit the needed expansion of world trade, and a failure to check inflation, which is now running at a rate of 9% in the European Community. They fear that these developments, which can be corrected only by tough and usually unpopular government actions, could turn...
Because of the recession and soaring benefits for some 30 million Americans, the system has been paying out more than it is taking in from Social Security taxes. Outgo is expected to exceed income by $5.6 billion this year, and if the trend continues, the system will run out of money by the early 1980s. Carter's solution combines liberal and conservative elements: he proposes both an increase in taxes and a slowdown in the sharp rise in benefits...
There was one ominous item in Carter's news: U.S. wholesale prices in April rose at an annual rate of 14%, the third straight month of double-digit figures. That trend could be aggravated by rising steel costs, as two producers, Republic and Youngstown, raised prices 6.8% to 8.8% on many products. Otherwise, all signals were go. Unemployment dropped to 7% in April; that is the lowest figure in 29 months. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal estimates that U.S. GNP will rise 7% in the second quarter, v. 5.2% in the first. U.S. auto sales in April climbed 12.5% above...
...today's public seems to accept today's tenors, Italian and otherwise. Pavarotti and Domingo thrill audiences the world over with what once would be considered dull singing, a trend that confirms my suspicion of a steady decline in operatic sensibilities. This decline may have started at roughly the same time that Opera began to die as an art form: something which occurred after the death of Puccini and before that of Benjamin Britten. We are now an artistically starved audience, looking at the operatic stage not as an expression of contemporary life, but as a musical museum, where singers...