Word: trend
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...payments and the effect of higher tax brackets caused by inflation--it seems reasonable to try the limited tax slash plan recently defeated in the House. As higher production costs and increasing uncertainty continue to stunt incentive in the industrial sector, it may prove necessary to counter the recessionary trend with some sort...
...This trend demonstrates more emphatically than most intellectual realignments the way the past alters under the gaze of new generations. Children raised on the stultifying history textbooks of the past-especially those of the '40s and '50s-are apt to think of the past as a mass of impermeable and indigestible facts: a huge and useless object, as lifeless and impassive as a moonscape. But the past actually teems with an almost irrepressible life, especially in a nation as widely literate and elaborately documented as the U.S. The past constantly achieves renewals and transmogrifications as political symbol...
According to the Knesset Immigration Committee, 2,000 Israelis are now emigrating each month, mostly to the U.S. About 25,000 are expected to leave this year, 10,000 more than in 1979. If the trend continues, more Jews soon will be departing from Israel than arriving from other countries. Already 400,000 Israeli Jews - one in nine - are living...
...push the price of oil ever higher. Said Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi oil minister, after the meeting: "The agreement does not impose restrictions on others not to raise their prices. But I don't think they are going to raise prices because of the downward trend of the markets...
...back-to-currency trend has spawned a boom in cards that give members discounts on cash purchases. One of the most successful is Savings Plus, which originated in Missouri and now claims more than 500,000 members nationwide. Under the name SaveSystem, merchants accepting the card in Washington, D.C., give discounts...