Word: trend
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French business interests, distressed by the Socialists' nationalization program, the initial trend toward taxes and expanded workers' benefits, are relieved by the moderating efforts of Finance Minister Jacques Delors. In the corporate community, notes one Paris-based diplomat, Delors is admired as "a sound, realistic numbers man, the lifeline to reality in a world of Socialist schoolteachers who have never met a payroll." Delors clearly had a part in narrowing the scope of the nationalization program that had been an integral element of the Socialist-Communist platform since 1972. Certain French subsidiaries of large foreign firms, such...
...social scientists, meanwhile, did lots of reading and talking: they poked around in unusual cities and villages and when they were through, they had spotted a trend or come up with a new social theory...
...critics are justifiably suspicious. In several respects Reagan's policies seem directed more towards placating public opinion as towards achieving agreements, and Sunday's speech, however belatedly and begrudgingly spoken, further reflected that trend. Reagan was swept into office as the beneficiary of a general rightward shift that permeated attitudes on both domestic and foreign issues, and at a time when events--including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and U.S. insecurity induced by the hostage crisis--had chilled superpower relations. But the Administration's earlier stridency on E1 Salvador and apocalyptic pronouncements on the Soviets and nuclear war helped...
...concern on the University's part. The average student hears from Harvard officials only when he trips up or when he performs so superbly that to ignore his achievements would only serve to embarrass the University. Admittedly, several campus research groups periodically survey the masses in order to prepare "trend" reports on the quality of life. The latest of these questionnaires, now being circulated among upperclassmen, concerns the undergraduate House system, about which, Bok notes in a cover letter, the Harvard administration is "deeply concerned" To be sure, the results of this effort will eventually surface somewhere above the fold...
...slowly, they went relentlessly upward. Yet last week the Labor Department reported that the economy's 17-year inflationary spiral had, for one month at least, finally been broken. During March, inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index actually went down instead of up. This turned a trend of what economists call disinflation, or slowing price rises, into outright deflation, or falling prices...