Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly 20 million, and more than 15 million will jam Bombay and Cairo, Jakarta and Seoul. However, in a chilling Malthusian hedge, the study adds: "In the years ahead, lack of food for the urban poor, lack of jobs, and increasing illness and misery may slow and alter the trend...
Midland's takeovers are partly catchupmanship. The bank has been slow to follow the trend to international branch banking, as well as to join the brigade of British bankers in bowlers entering the lucrative California market. Since 1968, Midland's rivals-Barclays, Lloyds, Standard Chartered and the Royal Bank of Scotland-have all established offices there...
...numbers favor the Republicans in this year's Senate elections. Of the 34 seats being contested, 24 belong to Democrats, ten to Republicans. Moreover, several of the Democrats are liberals bucking a conservative trend. The Republicans are anticipating a net gain of three to six seats, enough to give the Senate a more conservative outlook. That could also be true of the House, where from 20 to 40 seats are expected to switch from Democratic to Republican...
...public traffic in what used to be respected as intimate lore is conspicuous and feverish enough to have provoked some thought about the implications of the trend. Something more than a mere departure from decorum must be involved when a society begins to live habitually in a blizzard of under-the-rug sweepings. Only the simple-minded could shrug it off as nothing more than a side effect of the open and permissive social mode that emerged in the 1960s. Letting it all hang out may be refreshing and even healthy, but not under all circumstances; neither honesty nor candor...
...trend, finally, suggests the working of human cur rents more fundamental than a shift in manners and mores...