Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer to a silicon chip the size of a pea. And prices kept dropping. In contrast to the $487,000 paid for ENIAC, a top IBM personal computer today costs about $4,000, and some discounters offer a basic Timex-Sinclair 1000 for $77.95. One computer expert illustrates the trend by estimating that if the automobile business had developed like the computer business, a Rolls-Royce would now cost $2.75 and run 3 million miles on a gallon...
...great megalopolis, the marketplace of information, about to be doomed by the new technology? Another futurist, Alvin Toffler, suggests at least a trend in that direction. In his 1980 book, The Third Wave, he portrays a 21st century world in which the computer revolution has canceled out many of the fundamental changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution: the centralization and standardization of work in the factory, the office, the assembly line. These changes may seem eternal, but they are less than two centuries old. Instead, Toffler imagines a revived version of pre-industrial life in what he has named...
...decade ago, perhaps swayed by the battle cry "Old enough to fight, old enough to drink!" 29 state legislatures passed laws lowering the drinking age. But with an average of 5,000 teen-agers dying each year in drunken-driving accidents, the trend slowed down. Since 1976, 20 states have hoisted the drinking age back up by one to three years. The payoff has been dramatic: in at least eight states, a higher drinking age was followed by a 28% reduction in nighttime fatal accidents involving 18-to 21-year-olds...
...hometown hero in Hamburg, Schmidt had campaigned hard, accusing the Free Democrats of "betrayal." Kohl was chastened but not discouraged by his party's setback because Hamburg has traditionally been a Social Democratic stronghold. Though it would be premature to judge as the start of a nationwide trend, the opposition's return to power in Hamburg, it is an omen Kohl would do well to heed...
...trade and a deteriorating living environment, good design is nothing less than a matter of survival. The tendency in 1982 to acclaim buildings, not because they solved urgent urban problems but because they carried the signature of currently fashionable design celebrities like Michael Graves or Charles Moore, was a trend in the wrong direction...