Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newspaper cartoon characters. Examples: Snoopy and Mickey Mouse. Now that is reversed. Toymakers vigorously promote their own elaborately executed concepts. They create the character and then license rights to the storybooks, school bags, furniture, clothes, greeting cards and TV shows that go with it. American Greetings started the trend in a big way in 1980 with Strawberry Shortcake. Similar hits this Christmas include Care Bears and Masters of the Universe...
Naisbitt also pointed out a trend toward comparable worth in which people would receive equal pay for equally challenging jobs, a trend which would especially benefit women...
...however, is that growth will speed up again early in 1985. Some reasons: consumers' incomes are still rising faster than prices, which increased at a comfortably modest annual rate of 4.2% in October, and interest rates are shading lower. The Federal Reserve tried last week to nudge that trend along by reducing the discount rate it charges on loans to member banks by a half point...
...that the charges usually hit individuals with $1,000 or less in their accounts, while wealthy depositors pay almost no fees and receive lavish services. Contends Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America: "We are witnessing an increasing denial of banking services to the poor. The trend is toward serving the rich and ignoring the rest...
...trend toward national banks worries people both inside and outside the industry. Says Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee: "Deregulation poses the greatest threat to the continued existence of a network of small and medium-size community banks. The claims [by the large banks] that deregulation is as good as ice cream and apple pie are beginning to wear thin." Donald Nutt, president of Baldwin State Bank ($25 million) in Baldwin City, Kans., frets about depersonalization. Says Nutt: "It's easy for the big banks to lose the human touch...