Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that has produced the strange bedfellows. Traditionally, coffee has provided more than 50% of the country's export revenues. It still does, but since 1980 income from coffee has shrunk, from more than $615 million to $403 million. This year bountiful rains promise a slight reversal of the trend. At current world prices, the Salvadoran coffee harvest could bring in as much as $410 million in desperately needed foreign exchange. Because roughly 25% of the crop is grown in areas contested or controlled by the guerrillas, more and more landowners have come to see the virtue of cooperating with their...
...deplored the trend of belittling the United Nations, stressed the "objectivity and impartiality" necessary for those in his office, and outlined the potential advisory and informational role of the organization in future disarmament efforts...
Herbert S. Swartz '53, a freelance magazine writer in Manhattan, called the Boy George article part of a trend toward generalizing and broadening the appeal of college alumni magazines...
...year for telephone giants. First, on New Year's Day the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph became effective. Then, in early December, Britain sold majority control of the government-owned British Telecom to private investors in the largest stock sale ever. Last week the Japanese Diet joined the trend. It voted to end the state monopoly of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (fiscal 1983 sales: $18.4 billion), the country's phone company. Beginning in April the government will offer half of NTT's shares for sale over a five-year period, and could eventually sell...
This "outbreak" of libel cases has raised a host of interesting questions concerning the role of a free press in the United States. What is the reason for this trend, and what are its implications for the way the press goes about doing its business? Has the press become arrogant? How can a public official redress what he or she sees as an unjustified attack on his or her reputation...