Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profits of $800 million, v. $59 million a year earlier-when the auto industry and the whole economy were floundering at the bottom of the nation's worst postwar recession. Although few if any companies matched that 1,200% leap, GM's dazzling performance highlights a happy trend: corporate profits have already rebounded from the slump to near-record levels. Most estimates are that the first-quarter profits of all the nation's companies rose a total 40% to 50% above the 1975 period. The leap, of course, was from profit levels that were sorely depressed...
...petition states that the students who sign it "deplore the trend in education at Harvard toward denigrating the quality of education in favor of keeping up 'standards' in a purely formal, rigid sense, which leads to increased competition and overemphasis on grades...
David Riesman '31, Ford II Professor of Social Sciences yesterday delivered the final lecture to his trend-setting Social Sciences 136, "Character and Social Structure in America," which 17 years ago was the first course in Harvard's history not to require a final exam...
...ground-little pieces of nothing in the earth-and seeing them grow," declares Harold Field, a retired editor and enthusiastic gardener in New York's Westchester County. "It defies description. It's almost magical." The rising interest in pots, plots and window boxes is, indeed, a healthy trend in a mechanized society. Millions of Americans work at jobs that rarely encompass more than a step in a production sequence or a repetition of services. And they work indoors, besides. For these millions, the meshing of one's hand with nature's rhythms and whimsies to produce...
From these small clues, Hoagland sniffs out a major cultural trend - "from the ancient juxtaposition of people, animals, and dreams blending the two, to people and monsters that grow solely out of people by way of dreams." Since he has devoted large swatches of his life to observing animals in the dwindling American wilderness, Hoagland is saddened by this further evidence of their decline: "As we drift away from any cognizance of them, we sacrifice some of the intricacy and grandeur of life...