Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Among those chefs who still dish it out, apple pie is called a "good seller" by only 57%, vs. 84% a decade ago. It is still the nation's most popular dessert, but as Editor in Chief Jane Young Wallace points out, "There is a trend toward healthy, low-cal foods. People seem to prefer fruit these days." Next time, make it apple pie, but hold...
...most dramatic manifestation, to some observers, is a disheartening exodus. Each month fully 2,000 Israelis leave for other lands. While demographers explain that this is a normal outflow for a free society, the trend runs counter to Israel's very reason for being. The emigrants' motives are mixed, but their departure suggests a loss of the visionary strength common to the pioneers of an earlier generation, who often risked their lives to get into-and stay in-Israel...
...same. Walter Heller, President Kennedy's chief economic adviser, expects that an economic slowdown in the next month or two will pull down the cost of borrowing money. John E. Barnds, vice president, business and banking analysis at the National Bank of Detroit, feels the "general trend of short-term rates is downward." In New York, H. Erich Heinemann, a vice president of Morgan Stanley, said, "I think we're living through a temporary bubble in interest rates that is not likely to persist...
...Soviet diatribe had apparently been sparked by a strong trend in the Polish party toward "horizontal" contacts among local party cells, a heretical reversal of the Leninist principle of "democratic centralism," by which power flows down from the Central Committee. That movement, born at a meeting of party dissidents in Torun on April 15, is now active in 40 of Poland's 49 provinces. In his speech before the Central Committee, Kania conspicuously refrained from attacking the Torun movement. While he warned that the party's "historically tested Leninist construction" must not be undermined, Kania described the Torun...
PREPPY FASHION and the Classic Look seem to signal that once again Rich is Beautiful. But this trend does not mean that life is easier for the rich. Ostentatious displays--the Reagan inaugural gala, for instance--arouse resentment, which annoys the Chosen...