Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from three years ago, when those unions last bargained. At that time the auto workers won an agreement that has pushed their pay up 15% in each of the last two years and the rubber workers got a contract that will be worth about 50% over three years. The trend-setters this time will be fighting a rear-guard action to avoid giving up gains made in past negotiations rather than bargaining for important new pay hikes...
...decided from the start that its responses would indeed be primarily words. Through the early days, Haig and other officials confined themselves to restrained expressions of "concern" and cautiously voiced hopes that the martial law crackdown would only be "a temporary retrogression, not a change in the overall historic trend toward reform" in Poland. As one top diplomat explained: "We want to tread the fine line between taking positions that would incite violence and bloodshed and perhaps [Soviet] intervention on the one hand, and avoid positions which would acquiesce in the repression of Polish reform on the other...
After eleven months in office, the President has reversed the trend toward steady increases in taxes and spending by the Federal Governmment and placed the U.S. on a path designed to lead the economy toward steady long-term growth. Yet, as the TIME economists made clear, the Administration at year's end finds itself increasingly entangled in a web of economic difficulties. Some of these are due to the recession that is now gathering force with alarming swiftness, but many are being caused, in effect, by the Administration's policy miscalculations and sheer wishful thinking. In either case...
Lindberg still detects the trend in society and fiction. Packaging is frequently given more attention than the product; politicians unashamedly talk about their image and how to sell it. In movies and books, notes the author, "con men now not only appear in a zany mix of styles, but they simultaneously carry on criminal activities and redemptive ones." In short, we no longer clearly distinguish between the good confidence...
...contrast to this trend, Harvard may formally reduce the size of its Med School classes within the next ten years because of the glut of doctors on the market, Paul said...