Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bozzotto is probably the most outspoken opponent of contracting out of all local union leaders, and has been the most successful in resisting what some see as an all consuming trend. The food service workers have the only contract which declares that no workers can be laid off or suffer a reduction of hours as a result of Harvard's contracting...
Edward W. Owens Jr., ISS project manager said his company recently hired 54 new workers. Owens also expressed confidence in what lies ahead for subcontractors. "It's a trend all right," he said. "I think more institutions are doing it--academic institutions, health care institutions, the government...
...trend is real, "but there is no reason to be inordinately concerned about the danger of elevating style over substance: in reality, there is a very strong correlation between the two. Walter Mondale is viewed as bland and traditional because he has staked out a position as a cautious and experienced politician, and he has focussed on the old Democratic issues--fairness, aid to the poor and the unemployed, etc. While this helps him with the old-line party groups like Blacks, industrial union members, and lower income people, it hurts him with the independents...
...table, when he's awake and in his dreams," Duarte says. "His theory that the tragedy of El Salvador will be resolved by total war is pure demagoguery." Duarte does not enter into dialogue. He carries on a monologue. He represents, in Latin America, the most progressive trend of the Christian Democratic line. "An exclusively military solution to the war does not exist. It will have to be negotiated. But first we must fortify democracy, which is still in diapers, and accelerate the reforms that will deprive the guerrillas of popular support. When the people see that inequalities...
Memphis clients prefer more luxurious locales. Trend-and jet-setters always crowd Memphis openings in Europe and the U.S.; Couturier Karl Lagerfeld has completely done his Riviera apartment with Memphis, including a silk-cushioned, wooden-roped conversation pit by Japanese Masanori Umeda, in the shape of a boxing ring. The style is catching on with professional decorators as well. In Houston, a beauty salon and a cocktail lounge are currently being furnished exclusively with Memphis. The largest single professional group who buy the disturbing style, reports Lorry Parks, a partner in Dallas and Houston's Grace Designs, are affluent...