Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...account. The Army provides financial advice and such services as family- emergency funds and low-interest credit. Despite the decreased value of the dollar, say Pentagon spokesmen, there has been an increase in requests for extensions of West German tours of duty. But some observers worry about whether that trend will continue in the face of new pfennig-pinching campaigns...
...immediate aftermath of the crash, he rushed to reassure the markets by pumping money into the economy. But since then the Fed has returned to a more conservative monetary stance, and interest rates have started to creep up again. The economists foresee a long-term continuation of that trend, with the prime rate that banks charge for commercial loans hitting 9.5% at the end of 1988, compared with...
...trim $30 billion from the deficit next year, as woefully inadequate. "The 1987 budget had a lot of phony stuff in it that will come back to haunt us in 1988," warns Jerry Jordan, chief economist at First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles. "This will produce a rising trend in the budget deficits...
...Brokaw it was the biggest week of his career. Along with Peter Jennings, his rival anchor over at ABC, and Public Television's MacNeil-Lehrer, Brokaw epitomizes a welcome trend in television newscasting -- urbane, intelligent and low-keyed...
...worries about a neoprohibitionist movement in the U.S. that equates wine -- "which should be drunk in moderation, as a socializing accompaniment to food" -- with hard liquor as an enemy of sobriety. Since wine's variety is its glory, he deplores what he calls the "internationalization" of styles, particularly the trend in California and elsewhere to concentrate on the production of two "supergrapes," Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay. "There ought to be more experimentation with wines made from Syrah ((a Rhone varietal)) or Nebbiolo ((from northern Italy))," he says...