Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spring Awakening, the first of the two plays showing at the Loeb's Experimental Theater, has been selling out recently, a trend which cast members attribute to very good word-of-mouth among the summer school and Cambridge residents...
...Washington. NATO had begun deployment missiles in Western Europe, in response the Soviets had stalked away from every negotiating table where the superpowers had been discussing nuclear arms control. Yet in the four months since Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov, the chill factor from Moscow has intensified. The trend is all the more noticeable because it contrasts so sharply with President Reagan's new and uncharacteristically conciliatory tone (see NATION...
...importation of foreign teachers may be a growing trend...
Thanks to the combined effects of the miners' walkout and the gulf war, which had caused the oil companies to build up their stocks, Britain registered a $1.17 billion trade deficit for April, instead of an anticipated small surplus. The trend could well continue. Scargill called off further picketing after Wednesday's clashes at Orgreave. But on Friday an estimated 3,500 miners again turned up at the beleaguered plant, and another skirmish with police took place. Elsewhere, there were signs that the striking miners might be gathering support. Ken Livingstone, the radical leftist leader of the Greater...
...aspirin in return for that country's copper. Low commodity prices and a world credit crunch are causing the back-to-barter boom. In just eight years, countertrade in all its forms has grown from an estimated 2% of world commerce to roughly 33%, according to Business Trend Analysts, a New York consulting firm...