Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your "Look, No Straps" story [May 3]. I am particularly upset about the fact that in your story a reference is made to a Calvin Klein Lycra maillot as his "coolest hot-seller." Certainly looks as though my suit is his bestseller-is that a way to treat a trend...
...FACULTY'S DECISION to permit students to cross-register at MIT for non-credit participation in ROTC was the right one. The real issue here is whether the University should prevent students from doing whatever they choose in their spare time. Following the trend of the last decade toward permitting students greater freedom in their private lives, the Faculty decided that Harvard should not interfere with anyone who finds ROTC valuable...
...vote. France has always had a certain difficulty in deciding on reforms, but once the reforms are made, the people are surprised that these changes were not done earlier. Q. In the last local elections the left won 53% of the vote. Why is there such a strong socialist trend in France today...
...present what is called socialism here reflects two currents-a socialist trend and a flow of general discontent. Together these currents amount to the percentage that you cite. But when economic recovery moderates the flow of discontent, the position of the Socialist Party as a whole will be less important...
Some climatologists dispute whether there is, in fact, a cooling trend; they foresee instead a worldwide warming trend that could melt polar ice and raise the level of the oceans and possibly inundate coastal cities. But whatever their feelings about long-term trends, scientists generally agree that the world's climate is entering a period of more widely varying conditions that will make planning for agricultural production difficult. The experts are also worried about the impact of man-made pollution, which makes predictions based on historical weather cycles less reliable. "If humans interfere, we cannot say for sure that...