Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS TREND has been consolidated by the nature of the aid process itself. As the U.S. becomes involved with repressive governments abroad, the "stability" of these regimes appears increasingly central to our strategic interests. Yet it is in many of these countries that the need to exert influence against internal repression is greatest. Certainly the domestic policies of U.S.-aided countries like Chile, the Philippines, South Africa and Iran, which Vance and Carter for the most part have left out of their references to human rights violations, merit not only public condemnation but the application of strong economic and political...
...trend toward monopolization of the nation's grocery markets by a few chains is matched by the domination of cropland by a few large, diversified companies, such as Tenneco, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, and Coca Cola. In California, 77 per cent of the agricultural land is controlled by 7 per cent of the growers, who employ 79 per cent of the state's farmworkers...
...notable trend in the 1976 donations was that business and professional groups nearly tripled their 1974 giving. But Big Labor still led those groups in total spending, $8.2 million to $7.1 million. In the past two years, some 370 new committees were created by corporations to channel political donations from officers and employees. Common Cause hopes to see Congress cut itself out of the influence game this year by providing tax money for congressional campaigns. Such a move would serve as a farewell present to Common Cause Founder John Gardner, who is retiring as chairman in April. Incumbents have been...
...Rosovsky commissioned a Task Force on Pedagogical Improvement to recommend ways to reverse this trend, and this week, after two years of committee meetings and consultations with educational experts, the task force released its report...
...apply? That is the immensely delicate question before the U.S. The Carter Administration seems to be moving away from Kissinger's "quiet diplomacy"-and there is a marked, similar trend throughout the NATO alliance. But it is not clear how far Carter and Co. feel they can go. There is some risk that by responding to each offensive Soviet act, the State Department will, in fact, let itself be remote-controlled by Moscow or the dissidents, however idealistic their motivation. Says a high-ranking Western diplomat in Moscow: "On the one hand, dissidents are undoubtedly helped by Washington...