Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around New York clubs since 1976, gradually refining their course, gritty music through two albums--one is only available on cassette--and an E.P. The net product is a tight, exuberant sound that can best be described as "Louie, Louie" on drugs. Their newest album, Hexbreaker, continues this happy trend...
...expert at the Law School added that the court's decision does not necessarily mean that the justices would rule that the law was constitutional. However, Professor of Law Richard D Parker said that the thought that the court would rule for the government because of a Burger Court trend both to allow the government to institute conditions on citizens benefits and to be deferential to the executive branch on matters of national security...
...time have not been resolved." The first, in Mast's view, is unemployment, which "could rise to socially and politically dangerous levels." The second is the $600 billion debt of developing nations that is testing the stability of the international financial system. The third is the trend toward worldwide trade protectionism. Said Mast: "I have the feeling we are committing the same mistakes that led to the Great Depression. That is, we are continuing to fight an enemy that is no longer there. Inflation is no longer enemy...
...there, but the swing is still missing," said West Germany's Giersch. The consensus among forecasters, Giersch said, was for 2.25% growth this year, with inflation falling to 3%. Unemployment is likely to stay at 9% to 9.5% in 1983, and Giersch saw little improvement in that trend next year. He anticipated that the country's healthy current-accounts surplus, which is expected to total $4 billion this year, will remain near that level for at least the next year...
Such choices are part of a growing corporate trend toward flexible, or "cafeteria-style," benefits. Instead of dispensing rigidly fixed programs to everyone on the payroll, some 100 major U.S. firms now offer or plan to offer expanded menus of alternatives. Employees whose working husbands or wives already have family medical insurance, for example, might prefer legal insurance or added vacation instead of more health coverage...