Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wayne County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Elliott Hall decided not to seek charges against Kindred, contending that the homeowner's retaliation was "perfectly justified." In the third episode, Ernest Leflore, 50, heard a man breaking into his home and shot him with a .357 magnum pistol. While critical of the trend, Hall conceded that "the Bernhard Goetz affair has had an impact. People are thinking more readily of using a firearm than in the past...
Since the '60s, that trend of advertising to tell you how you will feel it you buy the corporation's product and how it will change your wearying existence--has accelerated And by the 1980s, it has reached its extreme. It's gone farther, really, than just ads for shaving which are really ads for a Club Med style in the morning...
ButGorbachev, for all its misdirected stabs at historical perspective, is a rather embarrassing attempt to fashion significance and the ever-crucial Historical Trend out of a series of newspaper headline and some superficial research...
...dangerous ventures, ranging from office-building construction to securities deals with traders like E.S.M. "It's harder to make a profit," says Robert Seaton, president of Cleveland's Cardinal Federal Savings & Loan. "Therefore institutions are doing things they wouldn't have done before." Federal regulators hope to reverse the trend with tighter scrutiny and new limits on how fast a thrift can grow...
...seizure of fees are opposed not just by lawyers who represent mobsters but by trial-attorney and civil liberties groups. They fear that such efforts threaten to undermine the rights of all criminal defendants. Judge Kaufman has a different concern, that unethical lawyers are part of a "disturbing trend within the profession." Says he: "Unquestioning advancement of a client's wishes at all costs is a destructive notion that undermines the foundations of the profession...