Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whatever the cause of current weather patterns, they cannot yet be related to any of the long-range cooling -or warming-trends foreseen by scientific Cassandras. Says George Kukla, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "Just because we can't get our cars started, are suffering from frostbite, and have a few feet of snow in our driveways, we should not start worrying about an Ice Age." Among scientists who fear that significant worldwide climatic changes have already begun, there are those who believe that another Ice Age is not far ahead-as well...
...territories from Mexico, they had no qualms and little difficulty in making everyone speak English. But now the country no longer has the moral conviction to demand the assimilation of immigrants. Bilingual education, and for well-organized minorities, bilingual social services, have been growing quietly since the '60s. The trend is bad enough now, and unless the States plan to repeat the linguistic and cultural squabbles that plague Canada, they should reconsider absorbing Puerto Rico...
...good standing of the American entertainment industry, welcome in Las Vegas and Holl wood, on the screen and over the air, in homes and theaters...rock gossip sells newspapers; rock concerts pack stadiums; rock records dominate the radio." Not surprisingly, Rolling Stone Press is chasing in on this trend, coming out with a new, oversized (though not outrageously overpriced) rock 'n' roll coffee-table volume--The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, which commemorates rock...
General Strategy. Some form new splinter groups, others in their disillusion are drifting toward the Socialists, still others try to reverse the "democratic" trend within the party apparat. The Communists are still a great potential danger in Western Europe, particularly since the bourgeois parties have no general strategy on how to cope with them. Their role in Western Europe depends on the viability of the Western alliance, led by the Carter Administration. European leaders are confident that if "we" -the alliance-can lick our economic problems and the social tensions that come with them, then the Communist problem will solve...
...educators are as bullish as Mullish on intersession courses. The innovation stemmed in part from the unnrest in the late 1960s about traditional forms of education. That trend toward experimentation is undergoing serious re-examination at many universities and affecting intersession courses at a few. Wesleyan University, for example, has discontinued its intersession program partly because it was proving too expensive. Supporters of the idea, however, still see the January term as a valuable way to bring more variety into college curriculums-for both students and professors...