Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dartmouth win over a tough New Hampshire squad topped the list of noteworthy games, marking the Big Green as a potential challenger for the Ivy title, if its current trend of improved play continues...
...reaction. Figuring that Republicans could not win much of the black vote as a bloc, Goldwater said: "We ought to go hunting where the ducks are"?in effect among white segregationists. This appeal, then and since, attracted many strongly conservative Democrats who were distressed by the increasingly moderate trend of their own party. In 1972 the G.O.P. reached its high-water mark. Nixon won all Southern states, and after the election Republicans held seven U.S. Senate and 34 House seats from the South, as well as 288 places in Southern state legislatures...
...Recently, encroaching government regulation has been of great concern," Leahy says, adding "It's trend that will run into the wall of academic freedom...
...that the whole culture has turned in a narcissistic direction. Social Critic Tom Wolfe calls the '70s the "Me decade." Author Peter Marin describes the swing away from social concerns toward development of the self as "the new narcissism." Marin cites therapists as part of the problem: "The trend in therapy is toward the deification of the isolated self...
Will GM, by trumpeting gas-mileage savings on its smaller cars, be able to reverse the trend and add to the 47% of car sales that it won in the 1976 model year? Or will the other companies make what Ford officials call "conquest" sales to drivers who bought GM cars in the past but do not want smaller cars now? The question is complicated by price increases of almost 6%, which will raise the price of an average GM car to about $6,000-a shocking figure to the motorist who bought his last car three years...