Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They are much less of a problem now than they were two or three months ago. The poll results show a strong trend toward acceptance of my religious views. There is a general realization that they are personal and that the Baptist Church, perhaps more strongly than any other denomination, believes in complete separation of church and state...
...annual rate of 6.2% during June-slightly less than in May, though more than the average for the past three months. Most of the rise was accounted for by higher prices for food and fuel. That was anticipated; those prices actually dropped during the first quarter, a trend that could not continue. The current rise in food prices is expected to moderate. Excluding food and fuel, the Consumer Price Index rose at an annual rate of only 5.5% in the second quarter, an improvement over the first quarter...
...moderate and strike-free auto settlement would vastly strengthen that healthy trend. It also would bring to a triumphant end the union career (Woodcock, who, having turned 65, will have to retire next year, and strengthen his chances of landing a Government job -just possibly, Secretary of Labor in a Carter Administration...
...complaints have had political impact. The three nonsocialist opposition parties (Liberal, Center and Moderate) have pledged to halt the trend toward greater government centralization and slow the growth of the welfare state; the nonsocialist bloc has gained considerable strength. Since the 1973 election that left the Social Democrats with only 156 of Parliament's 350 seats, they have had to govern as a minority, relying on the support of 19 Communist votes and occasional deals with other opposition Deputies in order to enact key legislation. According to the latest polls, the Social Democrats' support is down...
With the appearance of Novelist Herbert Lieberman's City of the Dead, the faint of stomach are in for yet another assault on their feelings. Yet precisely because Lieberman's book, certifiably the shocker of the summer, speeds up the already overaccelerated trend toward limitless carnage, it vividly raises an old, unpopular question: Might not the squeamish have a point after...