Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exercise worthwhile, or will it start an ominous trend? The arguments are raging in broadcasting corridors. Though TV networks in recent years have increasingly sought ways to accommodate viewer feedback, they have traditionally drawn the line at turning over airtime to programs produced by outsiders. "Allowing your facility to be used for such a pointed attack from a particular ideological point of view seems to me bad journalism and bad broadcasting," says NBC Senior News Commentator John Chancellor. "It has to say to a lot of people who are watching, 'Basically, we were wrong...
...know what it is. We do know that it is not a direct cause-and-effect relationship." Some of those who insist that it is, she said, are actually causing harm. "There are increasing numbers of practitioners around the country who offer mind tricks as cures for cancer" -- a trend she called "most unfortunate" because patients are drawn away from conventional therapy, which "may very well help them...
...Reagan plan is entirely clear. It would reverse a 20-year trend of tax cuts for business that has resulted in individuals shouldering a proportionally heavier load of the burden. The basic mechanism remains clear too: lowering rates but making more income taxable by scrapping or reducing exemptions and deductions. Within that grand design, though, there are hundreds of provisions varying widely in impact. Details: Individual rates. The move to a three-stage, 15%-25%-35% rate structure would by Administration calculations reduce taxes for 58.1% of all American families; 21.2% would see no change except in the way that...
Despite a trend to the right at Harvard. McGuire says students at Harvard are "out of touch with the political world," adding. "There is a hell of a lot more to being a politician than to being smart...
Since February, however, the dollar has fallen from its dizzying heights. It has dropped about 4% against the Japanese yen, 11% against the West German mark and 24% against the British pound. This trend will help American companies compete with foreign goods, and may eventually bring down the trade deficit...