Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arab states long pledged to the P.L.O., the U.S. move vindicated a trend they have encouraged in recent years: greater moderation and realism on the part of Palestinian nationalists. Even George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh, leaders of two notoriously radical pro-Syrian factions within the P.L.O., hailed the American decision as a triumph for the intifadeh. But the renegade group of Abu Musa issued a veiled threat. "We fully reject the Arafat concessions and will prove our stand practically, in a way that neither Israel nor the United States would expect," said a spokesman in Damascus...
Gates argues that the trend towards literature in Black studies stemmed in part from the publication of novels by Black women in the mid-1970s, just the time when Afro-American Studies departments were in a period of crisis...
...This new trend in Black studies should have a profound effect on the direction of Afro-Am at Harvard, which is beginning to build up after having lain dormant for nearly a decade...
...afford to develop new, better products that will make us stronger in the long run, but that's okay because in five years we'll sell our stock publicly again and make back 10 times what we invested. This assumes that the economy and inflation continue an upward trend, because if they don't we'll go bankrupt, but what's life without a little risk...
...conducive to holiday cheer. Leading U.S. banks boosted the prime lending rate from 10% to 10.5%, the highest level since May 1985 and the fourth increase so far this year. For consumers who hold adjustable-rate mortgages or home-equity loans, in which payments are tied to the prevailing trend, last week's upward lurch in the prime was about as welcome as the Grinch...