Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the appointments of Messrs. Lance and Vance, I perceive a trend indicating that I am eminently qualified for a Cabinet-level position in the Carter Administration...
Since 1969, while inflation has soared by 60.5%, these officials have received a grand total of 5% in raises. As a result, says the salary commission's report, good people are leaving Government in a flood. If the trend continues, the Government will eventually be run by the rich, the young, the untried and perhaps the unsavory. Adds the report: "The costs of such a government reach beyond the costs of a salary increase; they are incalculable, and to a free people unacceptable...
...military capabilities. At the same time, the U.S. paid less attention to [its military strength] and permitted a narrowing of the gap with the Soviet Union. We have been able to turn it around the last two years, and we are now on the right track. If this trend continues, then the U.S. has nothing to be concerned about. However, if we again go into the posture that developed before 1974, where we were spending a smaller part of our G.N.P., a smaller part of our federal budget [for defense], then we would find ourselves ten years from...
Number two, we have been spending more and more on various social programs over the last ten years, which takes a greater and greater percentage of our federal budget and of our G.N.P. If that trend continues much longer, we could find ourselves in a period of years in precisely the crisis Great Britain faces today. That trend has to be stopped...
...would be against the plan if it created totally uniform Houses. He said Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the dear of the Colleges for housing, told complaining students last spring that the previous year all dissatisfied students had been able to transfer, "leading us to believe that the trend would continue...